Doctors at the Israeli Barzilai Medical Center, where Palestinian administrative detainee Kayed Fasfous is being treated, have told his family that Fasfous is nearing sudden death after 123 days of hunger strike, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
Fasfous, 34, from the southern West Bank town of Dura, has been on hunger strike to demand an end of his indefinite administrative detention without charge or trial by the Israeli occupation authorities.
Fasfous’s brother, Hasan, said on Sunday that doctors at Barzilai told him that his brother has been developing symptoms suggesting a clot in his blood, which is an early warning of the risk of sudden death.
Hasan said his brother is also experiencing an intermittent loss of consciousness, irregular heartbeats, tingling in the chest, a decrease in blood pressure, kidney and heart problems, a shortage of fluids in his body and recurring pains and aches across his body.
Meanwhile, four other Palestinian prisoners are going ahead with their hunger strike in protest against Israeli occupation authorities’ policy of administrative detention.
The hunger-striking prisoners include, in addition to Fasfous, Alaa Aaraj (100 days), Hesham Abu Hawwash (91 days), Ayyad Hureimi (54 days), and Loay Al-Ashkar (36 days).
Eralier in October, UN independent rights experts called on Israeli occupation authorities to completely end the “unlawful practice” of administrative detention, warning that some of the hunger strikers were in imminent danger of death.
Source: Palestinian media
