RAMALLAH (Dispatches) – A Palestinian NGO has raised the alarm on the deteriorating health condition of a hunger-striking Palestinian detainee in a Zionist regime jail.
Hisham Abu Hawwash, 40, has been on hunger strike for 127 days in protest of his detention without trial.
“Abu Hawwash is facing a very serious health condition,” the Palestinian Prisoner Society said in a statement on Tuesday.
It said prison authorities refuse to transfer the Palestinian detainee from his prison hospital to a civilian hospital for treatment.
On Sunday, Israel’s Supreme Court rejected an appeal to suspend Abu Hawwash’s administrative detention and transfer him to a civilian hospital.
Abu Hawwash, from the town of Dura in southern West Bank, was detained by Zionist troops on October 27, 2020 and placed under so-called administrative detention.
The policy of administrative detention allows Zionist regime authorities to detain anyone for six months without charge or trial, which can be extended indefinitely.
According to the NGO, there are around 4,650 Palestinian detainees in the regime’s jails, including at least 500 held without charge or trial.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said representatives of Palestinian prisoners in the occupying regime’s jails have met with the prison administration in Ramon Prison and demanded an end to the ongoing unprecedented assaults against female detainees including the solitary confinement of three prisoners.
The organization said in a statement on Monday that the representatives presented, during the meeting, their demands, most notably stopping the assault against the female prisoners and ending the isolation of Shoroq Doyat, Marah Bakir and Mona Kaadan.
According to the statement, only when the demands are met, will an in-depth dialogue continue regarding the female prisoners’ issue.
The occupying regime’s prison administration is reported to have accepted the prisoners’ conditions, however there is no information to confirm when the isolation of the female prisoners will come to an end.