Hisham Abu Hawash has been held in administrative detention, without trial or known charges, since October 2020
Palestinian prisoner Hisham Abu Hawash has been on hunger strike for 140 days, one of the longest prison hunger strikes ever held by a Palestinian, over his detention without trial.
Palestinian civil society, the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian members of the Israeli Knesset have called for Abu Hawash’s release. Palestinians took to the streets in support of that demand late last week in West Bank cities including Ramallah. In Umm al Fahem, a town in central Israel predominantly inhabited by Palestinians with Israeli citizenship, four people were arrested as a protest was violently quashed by police.
He is currently being held at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, where he was recently transferred from Israel’s Ramle prison. According to Israeli daily Haaretz, his detention order was suspended last week, but Abu Hawash decided to carry on with the strike until it is revoked entirely.Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have often resorted to hunger strikes to draw attention to their cases, and are seen as national heroes by much of Palestinian society.
Administrative detainees are unable to challenge the charges against them, which even they and their lawyers are not allowed to see.The danger of Abu Hawash’s sudden death due to organ failure is very real at this stage, as pointed out by medical experts in the last few days. IRA leader Bobby Sands died after a 66-day hunger strike that changed the course of conflict in Northern Ireland in 1981.
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