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Palestinian inmate remains on his 98th day of hunger strike
Palestinian inmate Raed Rayyan Wednesday remained in Israeli occupation prisons on his 98th day of hunger strike calling for an end to his illegal arrest according to local sources.
Sources said that Rayyan, 27, from the village of Beit Doqqo in jerusalem, embarked on a hunger strike to reject his prolonged administrative detention in Israeli jails for his political activities and for being held for several months without trial.
Latest news asserted that Rayyan has lost weight and fluids, after he was suffering from headaches and pain throughout his body, prompting detinees’ advocacy groups to warn of serious deterioration in his health after 98 days of strike.
On another side, another administrative inmate in Israeli jails, who is Khalil Awawda, 40, from Idna town in the south of the occupied West Bank, still having his hunger strike after the Israeli promise to free him at the end of his current arrest period, which was supposed to end this month.
The Palestinian sources told that Awawda, a father of four kids, was on his 111th day of hunger strike when the Israeli occupation authorities decided they would not renew his administrative detention after its end this month. As a result, he stopped his hunger strike but restart it after Israel renewed his administrative arrest for four more months.
