Occupied Palestine – Two Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails are continuing their open-ended hunger strike to protest their administrative detention without charge or trial.
Detainee Khalil Awawdeh has been on an open-ended hunger strike for 50 days in a row to protest against his administrative detention, with a clear deterioration inflicted upon his health condition.
Awawdeh was moved several days ago from solitary confinement at Ofer to al-Ramleh clinic prison after his health condition has deterioration.
The detainee is now suffering from pains in the head and joints, exhaustion and emaciation, as he has lost over 16 kg of his weight.
The Israeli occupation authorities refuse to end the arbitrary administrative detention imposed against him, even though there is a notable deterioration in his health condition.
A father of four children, citizen Awawdeh was detained on December 27, 2021 and put on administrative detention without charge or trial.
In the same context, detainee Raed Rayyan, a resident of Beit Duqqu to the northwest of occupied Jerusalem, has been on hunger strike for 16 days in a row in a protest against holding him in administrative detention.
Citizen Rayyan was detained by Israeli forces on November 3, 2021, after raiding on his home in the town of Beit Duqqu.
According to Palestinian figures, about 4,850 Palestinians, including 34 women and 160 children, are currently languishing in Israeli detention jails
