The Israeli Supreme Court rejected during its session on Monday the immediate release of the prisoner Maher Al-Akhras from Jenin who has been on hunger strike for 78 days.
The Muhjat Al-Quds Foundation stated in a press statement that the Israeli Supreme Court had contented itself with issuing a recommendation to release Al-Akhras on November 26th.
Akhras rejected this recommendation and confirmed his determination to continue his open hunger strike until his release and freedom according to Muhjat Al-Quds.
Akhras faces extremely dangerous health conditions after entering the third month of his strike as he is unable to move and refuses to take supplements.
Umm Islam Akhras’s wife confirmed that he feels severe pains in the chest eyes head and stomach and he is physically unable to support himself.
Akhras was born in August 1971 in Silat al-Dhahr town in Jenin and before his arrest he worked in agriculture. The Israeli occupation arrested him for the first time in 1989 and his detention continued for seven months. The second time was in 2004 for two years and then he was re-arrested in 2009 and remained in administrative detention for 16 months.
He was arrested in 2018 and was held in custody for 11 months. On 27/07/ 2020 he was arrested again and the occupation authorities ordered his administrative detention for four months. The Israeli court tried to circumvent his strike by resorting to what it calls a freeze on administrative detention which does not mean the end of his detention.
Since the beginning of the strike Akhras has been subjected to repeated transfers as an attempt to exhaust him and discourage him from continuing his strike. At the beginning of his detention he was held in the Hawara detention center then he was transferred to Ofer prison until he was transferred to the Ramla Clinic prison and finally to the Kaplan hospital.
