Two Palestinian prisoners Khalil Awawdeh and Ra’ed Rayan have entered day 108 and day 73 respectively of the hunger strike they staged in protest at their detention administratively with no indictment or trial.
About a week ago prisoner Awawdeh was transferred once again from the Ramla prison infirmary to a hospital in 1948 occupied Palestine following a sharp decline in his health condition according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society.
In recent months he was repeatedly transferred from the Ramla infirmary to hospitals.
Recently an Israeli court rejected a new petition asking for the release of prisoner Awawdeh who suffers from worsening health condition as a result of his hunger strike.
Awawdeh suffers from a persistent headache blurred eyesight joint pains emaciation extreme fatigue irregular heartbeats and breathing and frequent vomiting of blood.
As for prisoner Ra’ed Rayan he staged his hunger strike to protest an Israeli decision extending his administrative detention.
Rayan who is being held in Ofer jail was kidnaped 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 similar health problems as a result of his prolonged hunger strike.
In a related context hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held without trial or charge in Israeli jails have been staging a boycott of Israeli courts for the 168th 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.
