The European Union (EU) expressed shock at ‘the horrible photos of Awawdeh who is on hunger strike now for 169 days in protest against his detention without charge and is in imminent danger of death.’
In a brief statement on Sunday the European bloc stated that Awawdeh should be either charged or released.
Unless charged immediately he has to be released the statement reads.
New photos released recently showed Khalil Awawdeh’s skeletal body as his health reached a critical stage after nearly 6 months on hunger strike in protest against his illegal administrative detention.
Recently an Israeli court froze his administrative detention but Awawdeh said he would not stop his hunger strike until his jailers decide to release him.
The prisoner’s lawyer Ahlam Haddad affirmed that Awawdeh would not suspend his hunger strike because he was asking for his release and not for a freeze on his administrative detention.
As a result of his prolonged hunger strike Awawdeh suffers from multiple health problems including severe joint pains a persistent headache emaciation extreme fatigue irregular heartbeats and breathing and blurred eyesight.
Awawdeh was kidnaped in December 2021 and since then he has been held under administrative detention – a tool used by the Israeli occupation authority in order to jail Palestinians for several months without charge or trial and extend their detention indefinitely.
