Palestinian prisoner Hassan Shawka aged 29 has been on an open-ended hunger-strike for 12 days running to protest his arbitrary incarceration in Israeli jails.
A lawyer from the Palestinian Prisoners Society said following a visit to prisoner Shawka in the Israeli Ofer jail that the prison administration transferred the detainee to an isolated cell shortly after he announced his hunger strike.
The detainee only drinks water and refuses to undergo medical check-ups to protest his administrative detention with neither charge nor trial.
The lawyer quoted prisoner Shawka as stating that he is enduring a headache and sight disorders. He has also been diagnosed with asthma and eye deviation.
Shawka has spent a total of 12 years in Israeli jails among them eight years in administrative detention. He was rearrested by the Israeli occupation forces on August 28 just one month after he got released from Israeli lock-ups and was sentenced to a six-month term without trial.
