Sheikh Jamal Al-Taweel one of Hamas leaders continues his hunger strike in Israeli jails for the 20th consecutive day Tuesday in refusal of his administrative detention and that of his daughter.
Sources in the Prisoners’ Affairs Authority said that Taweel suffers from fatigue dizziness and aches all over his body and has lost several kilograms of weight. He only drinks water and refuses to take supplements.
Taweel 59 rejects the occupation’s decision to extend the detention of his daughter for another three months.
He was arrested on 02/06/2021 after special Israeli forces stormed and searched his house. He was taken to Ofer prison and then to Hasharon prison after the Israeli Ofer Military Court ordered his administrative detention for six months.
His daughter Bushra was arrested on 09/11/2020 while she was passing through a military checkpoint and the Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) decided to hold her in administrative detention for 4 months.
Before the end of Bushra’s first detention period the IOA renewed on 07/03/2021 the administrative detention order for another 4 months subject to indefinite renewal.
Taweel spent a total of 14 years in the Israeli prisons and his wife was arrested on February 8 2010 and released on February 1 2011. He is one of the candidates in the “Jerusalem unites us” list.
There are two other prisoners who are on hunger strike in the IOA prisons rejecting the administrative detention policy Ghadanfar Abu Atwan for the 49th day and Khader Adnan for the 24th day.
