WEST BANK (Anadolu) – Palestinian hunger striker, Kayed al-Fasfous is proud of defeating the Zionist regime by his “empty-stomach” campaign, Anadolu News Agency reports.
Al-Fasfous, 32, staged a 131-day hunger strike in protest of his detention under the occupying regime’s so-called administrative detention policy, which allows the regime to hold Palestinians without trial or charge.
He was finally freed by the occupying regime on Sunday.
“I’m ready to repeat my hunger strike again, if rearrested without charge,” a defiant al-Fasfous told Anadolu Agency from his hospital bed on Tuesday.
“I’m strong-willed. I will strike again if they (Zionist regime officials) hold me again under their administrative detention policy,” he said.
Al-Fasfous, from the West Bank town of Dura, was detained by Zionist troops in July 2020 without charge and remained in prison until he was released after staging his hunger strike.
He had previously served seven years in the regime’s prisons.
“Since I started my hunger strike, I was subjected to physical and psychological torture in Israeli prison,” al-Fasfous said. “I was handcuffed and assaulted. They placed me in solitary confinement.”
More than 7,000 Palestinians are reportedly held in the Zionist regime’s jails. Some Palestinian prisoners have been held in administrative detention for up to eleven years.
Meanwhile, concerns are growing over the health condition of a Palestinian prisoner who has been on hunger strike for more than 100 days in protest against the regime’s administrative detention.
Hesham Abu Hawwash, 40, has been on hunger strike in protest at his indefinite, unfair and unexplained imprisonment at the hands of the Tel Aviv regime despite his deteriorating health condition, the Palestinian Information Center reported on Sunday.
The Palestinian prisoner is suffering from frequent loss of consciousness, severe potassium deficiency, heart and liver pain, and constant vomiting.
Hawwash is one of the three prisoners who have been on months-long hunger strikes against their detention without charge. The other prisoners are Ayyad al-Harimi, and Lo’ai al-Ashqar.