Hunger-striking prisoner Anas Shadeed was transferred to the intensive care unit at Assaf Harofeh Hospital on Friday evening following a sharp decline his health condition according to lawyer Ahlam Haddad.
Lawyer Haddad told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that Shadeed and his fellow hunger striker Ahmed Abu Fara had been exposed to pressures since Friday morning by doctors and jailers to force them to break their hunger strike.
Haddad said that doctors separated the hunger strikers from each other after they refused to take vitamin injections adding that Shadeed was carelessly put on his bed in one of the hospital’s corridors before he suffered health complications and was taken to the intensive care unit.
As for Abu Fara she said another prisoner escorted by three guards was brought to his room.
Lawyer Haddad had filed on Friday morning a petition with the Israeli high court of justice calling for transferring the two hunger strikers to a Palestinian hospital in Ramallah due to the seriousness of their health conditions.
The prisoners have been on hunger strike since September 25 2016 in protest at their detention administratively with no indictment or trial.
