Tel Aviv (dpa) – A Palestinian who has been on hunger strike in Israel to protest his detention without trial has entered a critical stage after 54 days without food, a human rights group warned Thursday. Khader Adnan, a senior leader of the Islamic Jihad organization, was detained in mid-December and placed under administrative detention. The measure allows Israeli authorities to detain people deemed a security risk for six months or longer. By World Medical Association standards, “after 55 days, a man is in danger,” Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) spokeswoman Yael Maron told dpa. A PHRI doctor was on Wednesday granted access to the 34-year-old, who has refused to be examined by other Israeli doctors. But according to Maron, the examination was “not full” because Adnan is shackled to a bed at Ziv hospital in the northern town of Safed. Maron said the prisoner was “barely able to lift his head, very weak,” and therefore not a flight risk. She declined however to give further details of his condition, citing medical confidentiality. A hospital spokesman also declined to comment. Authorities should present evidence that Adnan, whose hunger strike is thought to be the longest ever by a Palestinian prisoner in Israel, is planning attacks to a court if it has any, Maron said. BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/zjorn Tags: Hunger, Israel, Jail, Strike Section: Health, Human Rights, Latest News, Palestine
