Video| Israeli MK tries to break into room of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner

Occupied Palestine (QNN)- A member of the Israeli Knesset has tried on Tuesday to break into the room of Palestinian prisoner Miqdad Qawasmi who has been in a hunger strike for 90 days and is currently held at the Kaplan hospital.

Video footage shows Israeli MK Itamar Ben-Gvir on Tuesday afternoon trying to break into Qawasmi’s room at the Israeli Kaplan hospital while Joint List leader Ayman Odeh was seen blocking Ben Gvir.

عضو "الكنيست" ايتمار بن جبير يحاول اقتحام غرفة الأسير المضرب عن الطعام مقداد القواسمي في مستشفى "كابلان" pic.twitter.com/k2jwTe4aNw

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Israeli newspaper Walla reported earlier today that Ben-Gvir will arrive at the Kaplan hospital to “closely check” Qawasmi’s conditions, as well as to “see up close this miracle that a person remains alive despite not eating for several months.”

“Convicted terrorist Ben-Gvir tried to harm the patient. I blocked it,” Odeh later tweeted alongside a photo from the incident.

Qawasmi, a 24-year-old resident of the southern occupied city of Hebron, was detained in January 2021.

He has been on an open-ended hunger strike for 90 consecutive days against his unfair administrative detention without a charge or a trial in Israeli jails, along with five other prisoners: Kayed Fasfous, Alaa Al-A’raj, Hisham abu Hawash, Shadi abu Akaer, and Ayyad Harimi.

Qawasmi has previously spent a total of four years in Israeli jails for resisting the occupation.

Qawasmi’s health condition has been deteriorating severely as he lost over 20 kilograms of his weight, and he is held now in the Kaplan Medical Center as a patient, rather than as a detainee.

Qawasmi’s family said that he has started losing a part of his memory and that Israeli doctors in the hospital are threatening to force-feed Qawasmi.

On October 6, Israel’s High Court froze Qawasmi’s administrative detention, but its order does not release Qawasmi from administrative detention – it simply freezes the order for the period of his treatment and observation.

The court’s decision also means that the administration of prisons and the Intelligence device are not responsible for his life, and turning him into an unofficial prisoner held at the hospital, under the guardianship of the hospital’s security instead of the jailors.

But Qawasmi said he will continue his strike until he gains freedom.

Around 40 Palestinian detainees started hunger strike since the start of 2021, in protest against Israel’s detention without a charge or trial.

Administrative detention is illegal under international law, however, the occupation state uses it to repress the Palestinian people.

‘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.

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.

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.