The Israeli Prison Service (IPS) has been procrastinating for more than a week in granting the Prisoners Commission’s lawyer permission to visit the hunger-striking prisoner Ghadanfar Abu Atwan who is currently detained in the Israeli Kaplan Hospital where he was recently transferred after his health condition worsened.
The Commission said on Monday that there is clear concern on the life of Abu Atwan especially that the IPS abused him and brutally assaulted him during the past days several times and he was taken more than once to Israeli hospitals.
It added that Abu Atwan refused more than once to undergo medical examinations and refrained from drinking water as a form of protest against the ill-treatment he has been subjected to recently.
Abu Atwan’s family appealed to the human rights organizations to allow them to visit him especially since there is a danger on his life after 48 days of hunger strike which he waged in refusal of his administrative detention.
Abu Atwan has been suffering from constant fatigue and headaches dizziness and joint pain. He has lost several kilograms of weight and has been complaining about the lack of fluid in his body and he urgently needs medical attention.
Meanwhile the prisoner Sheikh Jamal Al-Taweel one of Hamas leaders continues his open hunger strike for the 19th consecutive day in refusal of his administrative detention and that of his daughter over the past several months.
The Israeli occupation forces arrested his daughter a journalist on 09/11/2020 while she was passing through a military checkpoint.
On June 7 2021 the military occupation court ordered Taweel administrative detention for six months.
Taweel spent a total of 14 years in the Israeli prisons and his wife was arrested on February 8 2010 and released on February 1 2011. He is one of the candidates in the “Jerusalem unites us” list.
