The two Palestinian prisoners Khalil Awawdeh and Ra’ed Rayan are continuing their open hunger strike they staged in protest at their detention administratively with no indictment or trial.
According to the Palestinian Prisoner Society prisoner Awawdeh who has been on strike for the 105th day Wednesday was transferred once again from the Ramla prison infirmary to a civilian hospital following a sharp decline in his health condition.
In recent months he was repeatedly transferred from the Ramla infirmary to hospitals.
About two weeks ago an Israeli court rejected a new petition asking for Awawdeh’s release on health grounds.
Awawdeh suffers from persistent headache joint pains emaciation extreme fatigue irregular heartbeats and breathing and frequent vomiting of blood.
As for prisoner Ra’ed Rayan he entered day 70 of his hunger strike on Wednesday to protest an Israeli decision extending his administrative detention.
Rayan who is being held in Ofer jail was kidnapped from his home in Beit Duqqu village northwest of Occupied Jerusalem on December 3 2021 and soon later an Israeli military court ordered his detention administratively for six months.
He also suffers from multiple health problems as a result of his prolonged hunger strike.
Meanwhile nearly 500 Palestinian prisoners held without trial or charge in Israeli jails have been staging a boycott of Israeli courts for the 161st consecutive day to demand an end to the policy of administrative detention.
In early January the administrative detainees announced a complete boycott of all judicial procedures related to their administrative detention.
