Palestinian detainee Awawdeh still on hunger strike battling administrative detention
Occupied Palestine (QNN) – Palestinian detainee Khalil Awawdeh has been on an open-ended hunger strike for 44 days in a row battling against his administrative detention in Israeli jails.
Commission of Detainees’ Affairs said that detainee Awawdeh has been transferred from solitary confinement in Ofer to al-Ramleh prison clinic after a notable deterioration in his health condition.
The commission pointed out that detainee Awawdeh suffers from pains in the head and joints, exhaustion and emaciation, indicating that he has lost over 16 kg of his weight.
The Israeli occupation authorities refuse to end the arbitrary administrative detention imposed against detainee Awawdeh, even though there is a notable deterioration in his health condition, the commission noted.
A father of four children, citizen Awawdeh was detained on December 27, 2021 and put on administrative detention without charge or trial.
Detainee Awawdeh, who is a resident of the town of Ethna to the southwest of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, has been exposed to Israeli detentions several times since 2002.
Palestinian Prisoners’ Society said that it’s the second time for the detainee Awawdeh to launch an open-ended hunger strike, since he engaged in a mass hunger strike that took place in 2012.
According to Palestinian statistics, about 4,850 Palestinians, including 34 women and 160 children, are currently languishing in Israeli detention jails.
Among them, close to 540 Palestinians are currently being held under Israel’s illegal policy of administrative detention, under which detainees can be held for renewable six-month periods without charge or trial.
