The Palestinian Prisoners Information Office on Sunday published painful pictures of Khalil Awawda who has been on a hunger strike in the Israeli occupation prisons.
The pictures circulated on social media showed the serious deterioration in his health, as he appeared with a slender body resembling a skeleton as a result of his strike.
40-year-old Palestinian prisoner Khalil Awawda, from the town of Idna in the city of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank, has been on a hunger strike for nearly 170 days, in refusal to be administratively detained.
On Monday, August 29, the Palestinian Prisoner Club said Awawda sent a message this morning, via a short video, from the Asaf Harofeh hospital where he is admitted.
In the video, prisoner Awawda said, “O people of the world, this rickety body, of which nothing remains but bones and skin, does not reflect the weakness and nakedness of the Palestinian people, but rather is a mirror in the face of the real occupation that claims to be a democratic state, while there is a prisoner without charge in detention. The barbaric administrator to say in his flesh and blood: No to administrative detention, no to administrative detention.”
“We are people whose cause is just, and it will remain just, and we will continue to stand against it. Administrative detention, even if the flesh and skin melt and the bones perish, and even if the lives are gone, be confident that we have the right and that our cause is just, no matter how high the price paid,” he added.
He is in a critical health condition and faces the threat of sudden death, weighing 38 kilogrammes (84 pounds).
On Sunday, August 28, activists protested outside Assaf Harofeh Hospital in support of Khalil Awawdeh, calling for his immediate release.