Prisoner Maher Al-Akhras 49 from Silat al-Dhahr town south of Jenin continues his open hunger strike for the 91st consecutive day Sunday rejecting his administrative detention.
Akhras is being held in the Israeli Kaplan hospital in an extremely dangerous health condition as he suffers severe pain and there is a fear that his vital organs will suffer a sudden relapse.
The Muhjat Al-Quds Foundation for Martyrs Prisoners and Wounded reported that Akhras is currently staying in the internal section of Kaplan Hospital in a very critical health condition and he suffers from severe pain all over his body.
The Israeli occupation authorities decided to transfer him from Kaplan hospital to the Ramla Clinic prison at 2 p.m. Three Israeli guards carried him but he fell on the floor then they took him to an isolated room and he lost consciousness until five in the evening according to the Muhjat Al-Quds.
Akhras sent a message to the Palestinian people and the Palestinian leadership in which he said “I want to see my children and my wife before I die in Kaplan Hospital and if they want to help me now they must pressure the Israeli authority to take me to West Bank hospitals.”
“I want to die among my family and children not in Kaplan Hospital. I do not want them to put me in the refrigerator or do an autopsy on me and I ask the former freed prisoners and the families of the martyrs to carry my coffin” Akhras added.
He continued “I feel that the (Israeli) occupation wants to kill me without anyone seeing them and without cameras. I hold everyone fully responsible for pressuring the occupation to release me and I ask the Arab leaders in the 1948 occupied territory to intervene quickly before I die.”
The Foundation stated that the Israeli jailers prevented Arab Knesset member Walid Taha Saturday morning from visiting Akhras or entering his room.
The Israeli authorities decided on Friday to cancel the freeze of the administrative detention of Akhras which was issued on the 23rd of last September.
The family of Akhras started on Saturday an open hunger strike in front of the room in which Akhras stays in the Israeli Kaplan Hospital.
Akhras’s wife said that she three of her sons and his 70-year-old mother started an open hunger strike supporting her husband according to WAFA news agency.
She explained that she was with his family in front of the room in which her husband was taken since yesterday and they were not allowed to visit him.
Ahlam Haddad Akhras’s lawyer visited him on Saturday and reported that he feels very weak his body is shivering. He also suffers from poor concentration blurred speech and vision and feels pressure on his heart.
