Publish date6 Dec 2021 - 11:32
Story Code : 529572

Concerns grow for Palestinian inmate on hunger strike for over 100 days

Concerns are growing as Palestinian inmate opposing his administrative detention by Israeli regime refuses to eat for 111 days.
Concerns grow for Palestinian inmate on hunger strike for over 100 days
Hesham Abu Hawwash, 40, has entered day 111 of his hunger strike in protest at his indefinite, unfair and unexplained imprisonment at the hands of the Tel Aviv regime despite his deteriorating health condition, the Palestinian Information Center reported on Sunday.

The Palestinian prisoner is suffering from frequent loss of consciousness, severe potassium deficiency, heart and liver pain, and constant vomiting.

Hawwash is one of the four prisoners who have been on months-long hunger strikes against their detention without charge. The other prisoners were Kayed Fasfous, Ayyad al-Harimi, and Lo’ai al-Ashqar.

Last month, 34-year-old Fasfous and Harimi, 28, suspended their months-long strikes after Israeli authorities agreed to set them free.

Fasfous finally walked out of an Israeli jail and returned home to his family earlier in the day, after refusing to eat for 131 days in protest.

Facing widespread international criticism, the regime has also agreed to free several other Palestinians, who’ve been on lengthy strikes.

Another Palestinian prisoner has reportedly remained on hunger strike for four consecutive days to demand Israeli jail authorities to provide him with medical assistance.  

Moataz Abido, 41, from the occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil started his hunger strike on December 2 after Israel’s Prison Service (IPS) denied him access to medical treatment, according to Muhjat al-Quds Foundation for Martyrs, Prisoners and the Wounded.

Abido suffers from paralysis in one of his legs after being wounded by Israeli gunfire and has asked the Israeli jail authorities several times to provide him with necessary health care, but to no avail.

Instead, they have put him in solitary confinement after he started his hunger strike.More than 7,000 Palestinians are reportedly held in Israeli jails. Hundreds of them have apparently been incarcerated under the "administrative detention". Some prisoners have been held in administrative detention for up to 11 years.

Palestinian detainees have continuously resorted to open-ended hunger strikes in an attempt to express their outrage at the detention.

Palestinian inmates have also been subjected to systematic torture, harassment and repression all through the years of Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories.

Over a dozen Palestinian lawmakers and nearly 20 journalists are also held in Israeli detention centers, several of them under the same detention policy.
In 2015, Israel approved a law that authorizes force-feeding the Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike, a practice rejected by the UN as a violation of human rights.

The United Nations (UN) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), as well as many human rights group have frequently expressed serious concern about hunger strikes’ health condition and call for their immediate release.
 
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