Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Commission said that prisoner Bilal Diab on Thursday entered his 9th day of the hunger strike he has launched in protest at his administrative detention in Israeli jails.
Lawyer Karim Ajwa said that Diab is suffering from many health problems that have worsened following his transfer from Negev prison to Ashkelon prison on Sunday.
Ajwa added that Diab is being held in a very small cell that is infested with insects noting that the Palestinian prisoner has only one blanket and is not allowed to change his clothes.
He pointed out that Diab is suffering from extreme fatigue chronic headache and sharp pains in the abdomen and the joints affirming that Diab refused to go to the prison clinic and undergo medical examinations and stopped drinking water for two days and a half in protest at the harsh detention conditions he is made to endure.
The lawyer stressed that Diab will not suspend his hunger strike unless his administrative detention is ended.
Prisoners and Ex-Prisoner Affairs Commission reported that the Israeli occupation authorities issued a 6-month administrative detention order against Diab on 14th July 2017 explaining that more than three months later Diab started an open hunger strike in demand for his release after the appeal filed against this order was rejected.
Diab was arrested several times before and had previously waged a 79-day hunger strike in Israeli jails also in protest at his administrative detention.
The Israeli Supreme Court is scheduled to hold a court hearing on Diab’s case on 30th November after it has rejected the appeal filed against his administrative detention.
