Days of Palestine – Ramallah
Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said that the Israeli Occupation Prison Service has rejected a petition submitted by the attorneys of Palestinian hunger-striking prisoners Khalil Awawdeh and Raed Rayyan demanding their immediate transfer to the hospital.
Awawdeh, 40, from the town of Idna in the southern West Bank Hebron district, has been on hunger strike for 97 days in protest of his prolonged administrative detention without charge or trial.
He is reported to be suffering from headaches, fatigue, blurred vision, pain in the joints, irregular heartbeats, frequent vomiting, and significant loss of weight.
Rayyan, 27, from Beit Duqqu village, northwest of Jerusalem, is also on hunger strike for 62 days in protest of his detention without charge or trial. He is also said to be suffering from serious health complications due to his long fast.
It should be noted that Israel’s policy of administrative detention allows the detention of Palestinians without charge or trial for renewable intervals based on undisclosed evidence that even a detainee’s lawyer is barred from viewing.
The two Palestinian prisoners continue their battle for dozens of days in a row rejecting the crime of administrative detention against him, and he is among at least more than 60 prisoners who have engaged in individual hunger strikes since last year, most of which was a rejection of administrative detention.
The detainees are two of about 530 administrative detainees in the occupation prisons. They also continue to boycott the occupation courts for the 157th day in a row, under the slogan Our Decision Freedom.
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