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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">“Save Our Sons,” families of 6-hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners urge US Congress, human rights groups <br></h1>October 29, 2021</div>
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<p><a href="https://qudsnen.co/?p=30844" rel="noopener" target="_blank">October 29, 2021 (Quds News Network)</a>
– Families of six-hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners in Israeli
jails have sent a letter on Friday to US Congress members and human
rights organizations, urging them to intervene and save their sons’
lives amid fears of losing them.</p>
<p>In their letter, the families of the six Palestinian prisoners, who
have been in an open-ended hunger strike in protest against their
administrative detention without a charge or trial, have called on the
US Congress members and human rights organizations to save their sons’
lives who might die any moment amid severe health deterioration.</p>
<p>The families of the six prisoners said they have turned their appeal
to the US Congress and concerned human rights groups as the Biden’s
administration and the international community have placed their concern
and focus on Israel’s latest settlement expansion and decision to label
six Palestinian human rights NGOs as “terror groups.”</p>
<p>The families said the Israeli occupation government is taking
advantage of the above-mentioned situation “to impose a blackout of
information” on their sons.</p>
<p>“Our boys are in very serious conditions, putting their lives in
danger. Our boys are dying slowly while we feel hopeless and powerless
and the international community continues to watch,” the families said
in the letter.</p>
<p>They continued, “The voices of our sons might not be heard
internationally, thus we urge you to convey their voices. Feeling
powerless to save the lives of our boys is the hardest thing to go
through. So, we urge you to save their lives and pressure the Israeli
authorities to face their responsibilities as an occupying power.”</p>
<p><strong>أسماء جلال قزمار / AsmaaQuz on Twitter</strong></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">(1)<br>Dear Congress members and Human Rights organizations, <br>As
Palestinians suffer from the Israeli daily violations of their basic
rights, and as the Biden administration, and the international
community, are focusing on settlements and the illegal expansion of
occupation</p>
<p>— أسماء جلال قزمار (@AsmaaQuz) <a href="https://twitter.com/AsmaaQuz/status/1454050987505766404?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 29, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
<h4>Starving for Freedom</h4>
<p>Six Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have been in an open-ended
hunger strike in protest against Israel’s detention without a charge or
trial.</p>
<p>The six-hunger-striking prisoners are: Kayed Fasfous (107 days), Alaa
Al-A’raj (83 days), Miqdad Qawasmi (100 days), Hisham abu Hawash (74
days), Ayyad Harimi (37 days), and Shadi abu Akaer (66 days).</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>One of them has partial loss of memory and Bacteremia, another has
loss of sight and problems in his nervous system, and the other might
die any moment.</p>
<p>Over 40 Palestinian detainees started hunger strike since the start
of 2021, in protest against Israel’s detention without a charge or
trial.</p>
<h4>Israel’s Administrative Detention VS. Palestinians’ Hunger Strike</h4>
<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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