Palestinian Health Ministry warned on Sunday from the serious health implications of the five Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike.
The Health Minister Mai Al-Kaila appealed to the international community and human rights institutions to take immediate and urgent action to save the lives of the striking prisoners in Israeli prisons.
She further stressed that the Ministry is following up the health status of all Palestinian prisoners behind Israeli bars pointing to the difficult health conditions and medical negligence policy suffered by dozens of prisoners.
The Minister said that Kayed al-Fasfous who has been in Barzilai Hospital as he continues hunger strike for 123 days is close to death.
Al-Fasfous has been developing symptoms suggesting a clot in his blood which is an early warning of the risk of sudden death she added.
Al-Fasfous is followed by Alaa Aaraj (99 days) Hesham Abu Hawwash (90 days) Ayyad Hureimi (53 days) and Lo’ai Al-Ashqar (35 days).
Earlier Sunday dozens of Palestinians peace activists and former prisoners marched in Ramallah in support of the hunger strikers.
The participants chanted pro-prisoners slogans and raised the striking prisoners’ photos condemning Israeli administrative detention policy.
Currently Israel is holding over 550 Palestinians in administrative detention deemed illegal by international law most of them former prisoners who spent years in prison for their resistance to the Israeli occupation.
