WEST BANK (Dispatches) – The health of Palestinian prisoner Miqdad Qawasmeh deteriorated greatly on Tuesday as he entered his 91st day on hunger strike, the Prisoners’ Media Office said.
The 24-year-old from the occupied West Bank city of Al-Khalil has been on hunger strike in protest against his so-called administrative detention, confinement without charge, or trial.
Qawasmeh’s life is now in danger, the Prisoners’ Media Office said, and he has been in intensive care at the Zionist regime’s Kaplan Medical Center for 20 days.
Occupation authorities have not set a date for his release but have frozen his administrative detention in an effort to distance themselves from responsibility for the deterioration of his health, the Prisoners’ Media Office explained.
The administration of Ashkelon jail on Monday transferred prisoner Naser Abu Hameed to Israel’s Barzilai Hospital after his health regressed. In August Abu Hameed was found to have been suffering from a lung tumor for which he has not received medical treatment.
Meanwhile, a Palestinian youth succumbed to the Zionist regime’s gunshot wounds he sustained two years ago during the weekly Great March of Return protests along the fence separating the Gaza Strip from the occupied territories.
The Palestinian Ma’an news agency identified the victim as Mohammed Labed, saying he died of his wounds on Tuesday night.
The Great March of Return was a series of demonstrations held each Friday in the besieged Gaza Strip between March 2018 and December 2019.
The protesters demanded the right to return to their ancestors’ homes, which they were expelled from in 1948 when Zionist troops forcefully removed 750,000 Palestinians from their villages to clear the way for the occupying entity’s emergence.
They also called for an end to the crippling Zionist blockade on Gaza, home to over two million Palestinians.
Zionist troops used lethal force against the Gaza demonstrators, shooting tear gas canisters, rubber bullets and live ammunition.
As a result, 214 Palestinians were killed and more than 36,100 others injured, according to the figures provided by the UN.