WEST BANK (Dispatches) – The Zionist regime has activated an ‘administrative detention’ order against Palestinian prisoner Miqdad Al-Qawasmi who has been on a hunger strike for 106 days, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said in a statement.
Twenty-four-year-old Al-Qawasmi is being held in intensive care at the occupying regime’s Kaplan Hospital because his health has deteriorated to such an extent that prisoner rights groups have said he could die at any minute.
Al-Qawasma, who has been arrested by occupation troops several times, has spent a total of about four years in the regime’s prisons.
He is one of six prisoners who embarked on open-ended hunger strikes to protest being held on administrative detention, a Zionist regime policy that allows detaining Palestinians indefinitely based on “secret information”, without pressing formal charges or putting them on trial.
Jawad Bolus, a lawyer with the Palestinian Information Center, said the advocacy group would hold the regime’s prosecution fully responsible for the consequences of such a move, and called for referring to previous reports issued by medical officials in Kaplan Hospital, which confirmed that the 24-year-old hunger striker was facing possible death.
The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs said the Israeli Prison Service was medically neglecting Palestinian patients in the regime’s jails, especially those in the Ramla prison infirmary.
The Commission said there are 15 patients in the infirmary of the Ramla prison that suffer from serious health complications.
Most of these patients are only given different types of sedatives and painkillers to relieve their suffering and pains.
The supreme command council for the captives of the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement voiced concern on Monday over the heath of Palestinian prisoners in the regime’s jails who have gone on hunger strike.
The council said that it has launched “a struggle program” to support the administrative detainees who are on a hunger strike starting from November 1.
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement also warned that it would launch a new armed confrontation with the Zionist regime in case Israeli officials pressed ahead with their repressive measures against Palestinian prisoners.