Israeli occupation denies release of prisoner Khalil Awawdeh again
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The Waed prisoners association says the Israeli occupation court once again denied the release of hunger-striking prisoner Khalil Awawdeh.
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Palestinian administrative prisoner Khalil Awawdeh is seen at Assaf Harofeh hospital, occupied Palestine, August 24, 2022
The Israeli occupation's court once again refused to release Palestinian prisoner Khalil Awawdeh, who has been on hunger strike for 171 days in protest of his administrative detention, the Waed prisoners association said Tuesday.
"This decision comes in light of the unprecedented health condition of a prisoner on hunger strike, as indications show that any complications will place him among the martyrs," Waed said in a statement.
The association concerned with the affairs of Palestinian prisoners stressed that it was still awaiting moves by international organizations to put an end to Khalil Awawdeh's suffering and release him.
"The decision of the so-called Israeli occupation supreme court to once again reject the second petition and refuse to release prisoner Khalil Awawdeh confirms, beyond any doubt, that the aforementioned court is complicit in [Awawdeh's] slow execution," Muhjat Al-Quds association said.
The European Union EU expressed its shock at the horrific pictures of Palestinian prisoner Khalil Awawdeh.
The EU mission in occupied Palestine warned Sunday evening that Awawdeh was now facing imminent death and must be released immediately, urging the Israeli occupation authorities to release him since he has not been charged
This is happening as solidarity with Khalil Awawdeh grows online. The voices on social media have been loud and clear, demanding to #FreeKhalilAwawdeh despite all Israeli attempts to mute the crumbling sound of his empty stomach.
Horrific pictures of prisoner Khalil Awawdeh were shared with the world by the Prisoners Authority, exposing the cruelty of the occupation's crime against this innocent man.
“He could die at any moment.”
— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) August 28, 2022
With these words, Khalil Awawdeh's lawyer described his life-threatening condition, with his bones threatening to tear through his flesh. Awawdeh stands as another living example of Israeli brutality.#FreeKhalil #FreeKhalilAwawdeh#Palestine pic.twitter.com/AF5PB3avId
His wife and father took pictures of him last week, exposing the truth of an ongoing “immoral and inhuman crime against him by the occupation prisons administration, and the Israeli intelligence service that insists on killing him," even if slowly, according to a statement by the Prisoners Authority.
In March, Awawdeh began an open-ended hunger strike to demand his release, knowing that he was arbitrarily arrested as per the Israeli occupation's arbitrary administrative detention policy, and his lawyer said he has only been only drinking water since.
For their part, Egyptian mediators recently called for the release of Awawdeh under a ceasefire agreement that ended the recent three-day Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.
The freedom of Awawdeh was one of the clauses of the agreement between Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and the Israeli occupation after several days of Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, killing dozens of Palestinian civilians and wounding hundreds of others.
The head of the political department in the Islamic Jihad Movement, Muhammad Al-Hindi, said on August 7 that "a formula for the Egyptian declaration of the truce agreement has been reached, and it includes Egypt's commitment to work for the release of the two prisoners, Khalil Awawdeh and Bassam Al-Saadi."
