A lawyer has sounded the alarm over the exacerbated health status of Palestinian hunger-strikers Ahmad Abu Fara and Anas Shedid saying they might die at any possible moment.
Speaking with a PIC journalist lawyer Ahlam Haddad warned of the imminent death of Abu Fara and Shedid who have been on an open ended hunger strike for 83 days running.
Over the past three days both hunger strikers refused to drink water. As a result their health condition has seen a critical turn for the worse.
Lawyer Haddad added that hunger striker Shedid has been suffering severe dehydration and excruciating groin pains. He has also been diagnosed with asthma and cardiovascular disorders.
Hunger striker Abu Fara has meanwhile been enduring heart pains and vision disorders.
According to the lawyer both hunger strikers have been suffering urinary retention over the past couple of days.
She quoted the detainees as vowing to continue their hunger strike no matter the price and until they restore their freedom.
At the same time the prisoners and ex-prisoners committee on Thursday evening warned that the two hunger strikers are on the verge of death after they decided to stop drinking water.
Shedid and Abu Fara both natives of the southern West Bank province of al-Khalil have been on an open-ended hunger strike for 83 days in a row to protest their administrative detention with neither charge nor trial in Israeli jails. As of Monday evening they stopped drinking water.
