The family of the prisoner Khalil Awawda appeals to the international community to intervene to release him

Occupied Jerusalem-SANA

“Life is of no value and my father is absent from us. He is detained in the cells of the Israeli occupation.. I fear for him and miss him and my three brothers as he continues to go on hunger strike in defiance of the occupation.. I dream of embracing him and sitting with him.” She lives with her family out of fear for the life of her captive father, Khalil Awawdeh, who continues for the 38th day the battle of the empty intestines in protest of the occupation's crimes against the prisoners.

The prisoner’s wife, Dalal Awawdeh, said, “I and my four children, Tulin, Lauren, Maria and Maryam, live a journey of daily pain and suffering as a result of the occupation preventing us from visiting or contacting him. We are waiting for any information to reassure us about him. Food..every minute that passes is a danger to his life with the continuous deterioration of his health.”

Dalal added, "Khalil has lost the ability to move and stand on his feet and suffers from severe pain in the bones and joints and from severe wasting as a result of losing more than 15 kg of his weight. He also suffers from intermittent fainting and needs urgent health care to save his life, especially that he only takes water without supports." or salts, and this poses a serious threat to his life.”

Dalal made a distress call to the international community and its human rights institutions to intervene urgently to save the life of her husband, who is fighting death inside the occupation prisons, which lacks all the necessities of life, stressing that the battle of honor and dignity that her husband is waging through his hunger strike is nothing but a rejection of the crimes of the occupation against him and the right of all prisoners, foremost of which is solitary confinement and neglect. Medical treatment, prevention of visits and physical and psychological torture.

In turn, the spokesman for the Prisoners Club, Amjad Al-Najjar, indicated that the occupation is holding Awawda in solitary confinement and torturing him physically and psychologically in a failed attempt to pressure him to stop his hunger strike, indicating that Awawda has a strong and unbreakable will and that he continues in his battle until victory over the jailer.

Al-Najjar pointed out that all the Palestinian prisoners are fighting for their freedom, calling for urgent international action to save their lives, especially the hunger strikers, as they live in harsh detention conditions in which the occupation violates all international conventions and norms.

The spokesman for the Prisoners’ Affairs Authority, Hassan Abd Rabbo, stated that Awawda, who is detained in Ramle prison, suffers from a continuous deterioration in his health, pointing out that the occupation authorities refuse to respond to the requests made by the Authority for his release, which calls for a move by the international institutions concerned with prisoners’ affairs to pressure the occupation to release him.

And the prisoner Khalil Awawda, 41, from the town of Idna in Hebron in the West Bank, has been detained since the 27th of last December. He had previously been arrested five times, during which he spent 8 years inside the occupation’s prisons, during which he was subjected to physical and psychological torture that caused him multiple health problems, especially in the senses of sight and hearing. .

Mohammed Abu Shabab

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