Freedom Tunnel prisoner Yaqoub Qadri suspends hunger strike
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Palestinian prisoner Yaqoub Mahmoud Ahmed Qadri suspends his hunger strike after the occupation fulfilled most of his demands.
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Isolated prisoner Yaqoub Mahmoud Ahmed Qadri
The media department of Muhjat Al-Quds Foundation for Martyrs, Prisoners, and Wounded confirmed in a statement that the isolated prisoner, Yaqoub Mahmoud Ahmed Qadri, suspended his hunger strike after the occupation fulfilled most of his demands, canceling the penalties imposed by the "Ohli Kidar" prison administration against him, all while preventing his family from visiting for two months.
Last week, Muhjat Al-Quds stated that the prisoner confirmed in a letter that he has been on an open-ended hunger strike since the beginning of June, in refusal of the prison administration's decision to close his cantina account, claiming that he owed 7,500 shekels, which he has no clue where it came from.
The Foundation added that he was denied family visits for a period of two months and from going out to the square for a period of two weeks, in addition to receiving a fine of 250 shekels. He stressed that he decided to go on an open hunger strike "in order to recover all the rights stolen from him by the prison administration."
In his letter, Qadri indicated that his situation is very difficult as he faces daily inspections by the prison administration, adding that the prison administration has moved him to a new dumpster-like cell infested with cockroaches, mosquitoes, ants, and bedbugs that feed on his body day and night, all for the sake of breaking his will and forcing him to end his hunger strike without retrieving any of his stolen rights.
Prisoner Yaqoub Qadri, from the village of Bir Al-Basha, in the Jenin governorate in the northern West Bank, was born in 1972. He was arrested by the Israeli occupation forces on October 18, 2003, and the Israeli court sentenced him to life imprisonment twice, plus 35 years. His charges were "belonging to and being a member of Saraya Al-Quds (Al-Quds Brigades) - the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, and participating in operations against the occupation forces."
On September 6, 2021, Qadri was one of six prisoners who broke out of Gilboa prison in a heroic operation that shook the Israeli occupation's trust in its security system to the core.
