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<p>October 21, 2021 - <a href="https://qudsnen.co/?p=30623">https://qudsnen.co/?p=30623</a></p><p>Occupied Palestine (QNN)- Six Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails
continue their open hunger strike in protest of their unfair
administrative detention without a charge or trial despite of health
deterioration.</p>
<p>The six hunger-striking prisoners’ health condition has been
deteriorating severely, as they have been suffering from powerful
fatigue, exhaustion, headache, severe weight loss, and deficiency of
fluids in the body.</p>
<p>The longest hunger-striker is Kayed Fasfous, as he has been on hunger
strike for 99 days, and he lost over 30 kilograms of his weight, and
suffers from pain all over his body.</p>
<p>Fasfous is currently held at Barzilai Hospital, as Israel’s High Court has lately frozen his administrative detention.</p>
<p>Fasfous is followed by Miqdad Qawasmi, who has been on a hunger strike for 92 days.</p>
<p>Qawasmi’s health condition has been deteriorating severely as he lost
over 25 kilograms of his weight, and he is held now in the Kaplan
hospital as a patient, rather than as a detainee.</p>
<p>Qawasmi’s family said that he has started losing a part of his memory. </p>
<p>Israeli doctors in Kaplan hospital tried to force-feed Qawasmi while
he was tied to his bed in the ICU yesterday and break his hunger strike.</p>
<p>Three Israeli jailers are surrounding his room and deliberately eat
in front of him. His right arm and left leg are shackled to his bed the
whole time although he is facing the danger of sudden death.</p>
<p>Israel’s High Court has also frozen Qawasmi’s administrative detention. </p>
<p>The court’s order does not release Qawasmi and Fasfous from
administrative detention – it simply freezes the order for the period of
their treatment and observation.</p>
<p>The court’s decision also means that the administration of prisons
and the Intelligence device are not responsible for their lives, and
turning them into an unofficial prisoner held at the hospital, under the
guardianship of the hospital’s security instead of the jailors.</p>
<p>But both Qawasmi and Fasfous said they will continue their strike until they gain freedom.</p>
<p>The 6 hunger-striking prisoners are:<br>
•Kayed Fasfous (100 days of hunger strike)<br>
•Alaa Al-A’raj (75 days of hunger strike)<br>
•Miqdad Qawasmi (92 days of hunger strike)<br>
•Hisham abu Hawash (66 days of hunger strike)<br>
•Ayyad Harimi (29 days of hunger strike)<br>
•Shadi abu Akaer (58 days of hunger strike)</p>
<p>Around 40 Palestinian detainees started hunger strike since the start
of 2021, in protest against Israel’s detention without a charge or
trial.</p>
<p>Administrative detention is illegal under international law, however,
the occupation state uses it to repress the Palestinian people.</p>
<p>‘Israel’ routinely uses administrative detention and has, over the
years, placed thousands of Palestinians behind bars for periods ranging
from several months to several years, without charging them, without
telling them what they are accused of, and without disclosing the
alleged evidence to them or to their lawyers.</p>
<p>Thus, the hunger strike is a method of a non-violent resistance which
the prisoners use to protect their lives and their fundamental rights
and a response to the occupation racist policies which they face in the
prisons.</p>
<p>There are 4,650 Palestinian political prisoners held in Israeli
jails, among the prisoners are 520 administrative detainees held without
charge or trial, 200 child prisoners and 39 female prisoners.</p>
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