Thread by @jvplive

URGENT: Khalil Awawdeh has been on hunger strike for almost 6 months to protest his illegal imprisonment by Israel without charge or trial.

He is on the brink of death. We demand his freedom NOW, as well as the end of Israel's practice of administrative detention.

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Staring down the barrel of “administrative detention,” or indefinite incarceration by Israel without due process, Khalil Awawdeh courageously decided to join a long legacy of Palestinian hunger strikers, many of whom successfully achieved their freedom.

For Palestinian prisoners, hunger strikes are the last and only form of resistance.

Though grueling and life-threatening, strikes are also a reclamation of control over their bodies, and a testament to Israel’s failure to break their will and suppress their struggle for freedom.

Back in June, Khalil briefly suspended his strike when he was led to believe that he had won his freedom — but Israel renewed his detention order, and he quickly resumed. “I will continue my hunger strike until I gain my freedom,” he has said.

Khalil is at risk of imminent death or irreversible damage to his health, and Israeli authorities continue to violently neglect his critical condition.

His cognitive loss is so severe that he only responds with the word “freedom” when spoken to.

To compound this medical neglect, Israeli authorities have also deprived Khalil of the ability to see his family until recently.

We echo the call of Khalil himself and Palestinians around the world for Khalil’s immediate release as well as for the end of administrative detention and the freedom of ALL Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails.

#FreeKhalil #FreeThemAll