Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) reported Tuesday 21 June 2022 that Palestinian administrative prisoner in Israeli occupation jail Khalil Awawda suspended his hunger strike after 111 days of fasting in light of promises by the Israeli occupation to release him at the end of his current detention period.
Awawda, 40, has reached critical health conditions due to the long hunger strike he launched on March 3 in protest against his administrative detention without charge or trial.
He was detained on December 27 of last year and was slammed with six-month administrative detention, which ends in six days.
There was concern that the Israeli occupation would renew his detention.
Israel’s widely condemned policy of administrative detention allows the detention of Palestinians without charge or trial for renewable intervals usually ranging between three and six months based on undisclosed evidence that even a detainee’s lawyer is barred from viewing.
Currently, Israel is holding over 500 Palestinians in administrative detention, deemed illegal by international law, most of them former prisoners who spent years in prison for their resistance of the Israeli occupation.
Amnesty International, has described Israel’s administrative detention policy as a “cruel, unjust practice which helps maintain Israel’s system of apartheid against Palestinians.”
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