The condition of Palestinian Khalil Awawdeh, who has been on hunger strike for 151 days, has deteriorated in administrative detention. The Islamic Jihad movement is demanding his release within the framework of the ceasefire understandings in the Gaza Strip, while the Israeli military court extended the detention of Bassam Al-Saadi, the leader of this movement.
The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation stated that the prisoner, Awawda, "is at risk of brain and nerve damage as a result of his continuous hunger strike."
And Israeli media reported that "Doctors Without Borders submitted a report to the Supreme Court that Awawda must be transferred to the hospital in light of the possibility of brain damage and damage to the nervous system," adding that the association also sent an "urgent letter in this regard to the ministers of health, defense and internal security."
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said that Awawda is in a critical health condition and at risk of sudden death, adding that his lawyer and a doctor are supposed to be allowed to visit him in Ramle prison today.
Saadi's trial
Al-Jazeera correspondent said that the Ofer court held a session today to try Al-Saadi, and that the Israeli military court extended his detention for 6 days.
On the other hand, the trial session of the prisoner Nael Barghouti in the Ofer Prison Court ended today, Thursday, without any decision being issued.
Barghouti has completed his 42nd year in the occupation prisons.
A cease-fire agreement between Israel and the Islamic Jihad movement entered into force in Gaza last Sunday evening, 3 days after the start of an Israeli military operation in the Strip, which resulted in the death of 47 Palestinians and the wounding of about 360 different injuries.
The movement's Secretary-General, Ziyad al-Nakhala, stressed that the agreement has no complications, "and it is represented in an Israeli commitment to release (the two prisoners) al-Awawda and al-Saadi."
About 682 prisoners are held in the occupation’s prisons, according to administrative detention decisions out of about 4600 prisoners, and the number of administrative detention decisions since 1967 is estimated at more than 54,000 decisions.
The occupation authorities and the prison administration allege that the administrative prisoners have secret files that can never be revealed, so the prisoner does not know the length of his sentence or the charge against him.