Senior Hamas official Hasan al-Wardiyan who suffers from diabetes has been refusing to take his medicines including insulin in an Israeli jail for 11 days in protest at his administrative detention with no indictment or trial.
The prisoner’s son Diaa said that his father entered day 11 of his medication strike to demand an end to his administrative detention which started about 11 months ago.
He explained that his father refuses to take four medications he needs on a daily basis mostly importantly those that regulate blood sugar and prevent blood clots.
He accused the Israeli prison service of being intransigent regarding his father’s demands and trying hard to dissuade him from his protest step.
Before his current detention Wardiyan had spent about 16 years in different Israeli jails.
In April 2021 the Israeli occupation forces kidnaped him from his home and jailed him administratively on a charge of his intention to participate in the legislative elections that were supposed to be held at the time.
