Israel arrested Khalil Awawdeh, 40, in December 2021 and has since held him captive without charge or trial. Awawdeh has subsisted only on water since March, his lawyer says.
Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have resorted to hunger strikes as a form of protest to win collective or individual rights.
Hisham Abu Hawash has refused food for 140 days in one of the longest hunger strikes ever held by a Palestinian prisoner.
Israeli prison authorities have taken punitive measures against Hamas prisoners, including depriving them of visits and confiscating all electronic devices from their cells, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society.
Sami al Amour, who was suffering from a congenital heart problem, died at an Israeli hospital “as a result of the policy and crime of deliberate medical negligence,” the Palestinian Prisoners Club has said.
Israeli security forces arrested hundreds of Palestinian citizens of Israel in the last week. One in five of them are children who may face military courts.
Teenagers in a village of Nabi Saleh near the city of Ramallah protest Israeli forces as around 1,500 Palestinian political prisoners have been on hunger strike for more than one month.
Palestinians held a general strike in solidarity with hundreds of prisoners in Israeli jails on hunger strike for 11 days, with some officials calling it the largest in years.
Hundreds of Palestinian inmates began a hunger strike on Monday to mark their protest against poor conditions in Israeli prisons.
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