Victory of the Palestinian captive after 133 days of hunger strike.
The Palestinian Prisoners of War Foundation announced the victory of a Palestinian prisoner in the battle of the so-called “empty stomachs” with the Zionist regime’s prison administration.
According to Russia Today, Nahid al-Fakhouri, head of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Information Office, said that al-Qawasmeh had announced the end of his hunger strike after winning a long battle with the Israeli prison administration.
Al-Fakhouri said that after several rounds of lengthy and difficult talks, the High Committee of Hamas Prisoners of War finally reached an agreement to release al-Qawasemi in February, so that the Palestinian prisoner could finally end the struggle after going through difficult days due to his deteriorating condition.
Meqdad al-Qawasimi, 24, has been in custody since January and is a former prisoner who has been arrested several times and spent about four years in Israeli prisons between sentencing and administrative detention.
Al-Qawasemi’s condition had deteriorated to the point that the Al-Ramla prison administration could not even bring him to see his lawyer in a wheelchair yesterday.
Administrative detention is a detention in which a detainee or his lawyer is not allowed to examine the evidence in his case, through which Palestinians are tried in Israeli military courts that do not comply with the principles of a fair trial under international law.
The period of administrative detention is often extended more than once for three, six or eight months, and sometimes up to a full year.
The Battle of the Empty Stomach is a term used to describe the struggle of Palestinian prisoners against the administration of Israeli prisons through a hunger strike and to achieve their demands, which are mainly the abolition and non-renewal of administrative detention sentences.
Five Palestinian prisoners are still on hunger strike to protest administrative detention.
