{"id":7541,"date":"2012-03-20T11:48:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T18:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=7541"},"modified":"2012-03-20T11:48:30","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T18:48:30","slug":"free-palestinian-hana-shalabi-critical-in-day-35-of-hunger-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=7541","title":{"rendered":"Free Palestinian Hana Shalabi Critical in day 35 of Hunger Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doctors say Palestinian hunger striker is critical<\/strong>
\n20 March, 2012 – By Diaa Hadid Associated Press – The Daily Star<\/p>\n

A Palestinian woman holds a poster of Hana Shalabi who has been on hunger strike for 35 days, during a rally in solidarity with <\/p>\n

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: A Palestinian woman who has refused food for the past month to protest her imprisonment by Israel without formal charges is in grave danger of dying, a medical rights group said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Hana Shalabi lost 14 kilograms (31 pounds), her muscles are wasting and she is in excruciating pain, said Ran Cohen of Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, which has provided her a doctor. She has taken only water since her arrest on Feb. 16.<\/p>\n

“We are worried. Her physician has demanded she be transferred to hospital,” said Cohen. Israel Prison Service spokeswoman Sivan Weizman said that for the time being, Shalabi is being monitored at a prison clinic.<\/p>\n

Shalabi, 30, a supporter of the militant Islamic Jihad group, is being held without formal charges, an Israeli system called “administrative detention.” She is scheduled to be released in another three months.<\/p>\n

Israeli military officials say they use administrative detention to hold people who pose an immediate risk to the country’s security, or when displaying incriminating evidence would reveal Israeli intelligence-gathering networks.<\/p>\n

More than 300 of some 6,000 Palestinians currently held by Israel on security-related charges are in administrative detention. Rights activists say international law allows this practice only in exceptional cases and that Israel blatantly violates these restrictions.<\/p>\n

Prison authorities say 20 Palestinian detainees have launched hunger strikes in support of Shalabi in the past two weeks. Earlier this year, administrative detainee Khader Adnan staged a hunger strike for 66 days. He ended the protest after reaching a deal with the Israeli authorities to free him in April.
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