Palestinian prisoner Hasan Shawka from Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank has been on hunger strike for about 29 days in protest at his detention administratively with no indictment or trial.
According a lawyer for the Palestinian Prisoner Society who visited recently prisoner Shawka in Ramla jail the hunger striker suffers from severe pains in his kidneys head and eyes as well as sheer physical exhaustion and weakness and vomiting.
Despite his poor health condition Shawka still refuses to take any vitamin or undergo medical tests and only depends on drinking water.
He has also been exposed to several punitive measures by the Israeli prison service (IPS) since he decided to go on hunger strike including solitary confinement repeated raids on his cell and inter-prison transfers.
The prisoner also told the lawyer that IPS officials had come to the jail and met with him in order to convince him to end his hunger strike but he rejected their offers and insisted on continuing his strike until he obtained his freedom.
Shawka was arrested with no reason on August 28 2017 and since then he has been in administrative detention.
He already went on hunger strike for 35 days which he started on October 11 2017 before he suspended it after Israeli jailers turned his file into a legal case and decided to release him on June 3 2017; however he was confined in jail as an administrative detainee again.
