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Palestinian inmate remains on hunger strike for 29 days
Palestinian inmate Khalil Awawdeh, 40, has been on hunger strike for 23 days against his prolonged administrative detention without accusation or trial by the Israeli occupation authorities.
Awawdeh, from the town of Idna in the southern West Bank neighborhood of Hebron, broke a 111-day fast two weeks ago after being comforted by Israeli jail authorities that his administrative detention would not be renewed, but he resumed the hunger strike a week later after the occupation authorities rejected on their promise not to end his unfair detention order.
He is a father of four, has been in jail since 27 December 2021, and has been placed in administrative detention, without charge or trial, ever since.
Israel’s widely charged policy of administrative detention allows the imprisonment of Palestinians without charge or trial for renewable intervals usually varying between three and six months based on unknown evidence that even a detainee’s lawyer is barred from considering.
Currently, Israel is holding over 680 Palestinians in administrative custody, deemed illegal by international law, most of them former prisoners who spent years in prison for their resistance to the Israeli occupation.
Amnesty International, has represented Israel’s administrative arrest policy as a “cruel, unjust rule which helps maintain Israel’s system of apartheid against Palestinians.”
