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Longest Palestinian Fasting Hunger-striker in ’Uncharted Territory’

Longest Palestinian Fasting Hunger-striker in ’Uncharted Territory’
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A rights group said Palestinian detainee Mohammed al-Qiq has now entered uncharted medical territory after 89 days of refusing food in "Israeli" detention, the longest such hunger strikes in decades.

Longest Palestinian Fasting Hunger-striker in ’Uncharted Territory’

Doctor Amani Dayif said the 33-year-old Qiq is in "unknown territory" medically because of the length of his fast, and that his condition is rapidly deteriorating.

"All medical literature depends on experiences from the past, and in all the experiences, there is no case of any hunger striker who has taken the Irish model, only drinking water, for this long," she added.

Qiq's protest fast also surpasses the ones by Irish Republican Army prisoners held by Britain in Northern Ireland during the 1981 protest strikes.

Meanwhile, his wife, Fayha Shalash, stated that her husband received two dietary supplements against his wishes for a total of five days while unconscious. However, he rejected all supplements when he regained consciousness.

Shalash, who supports her husband's campaign to avoid the possibility of repeated open-ended detentions, asked: "It is true his life is at risk, but what is the alternative?"

Qiq has been on hunger strike since November 25, 2015, to protest his administrative detention, a policy under which Palestinian inmates are kept in "Israeli" detention facilities without trial or charge.

The father of two, who used to work for the Saudi al-Majd TV network, has been accused by the Zionist Shin Bet internal spy service of "terror activity," which he denied, beginning the hunger strike after facing torture during interrogation.

A week earlier, the "Israeli" Supreme Court dismissed al-Qiq's appeal to be transferred to a hospital in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, ruling that he must remain in the "Israeli" hospital, where he was currently held.

Relatively, the United Nations expressed concern about his fate and the International Committee of the Red Cross described his condition as critical.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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