Gaza – The Hamas Supreme Prisoners Authority vowed on Monday to kill an Israeli military officer if a Palestinian prisoner who has been on a hunger strike for more than two months should die.
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Mohammad Qeeq, a Palestinian journalist who worked for a Saudi news channel, started hunger striking in November, protesting his administrative detention. Administrative detention is the practice sometimes used by Israeli authorities in cases of suspected terrorism in which prisoners are held without formal charges being filed against them for renewable six-month periods.
In a press statement released by the organization on Monday, amid Qeeq’s deteriorating condition, Hamas spokesman Husam Badran stated that “Qeeq’s life is a red line that if crossed, will lead us to take measures that Israel has never imagined.”
According to the Palestinian media, Qeeq, who has been hospitalized at HaEmek Medical Center in Afula for the past few weeks, is dying after 62 days without food.
They already attempt to do whatever is in their power to harm , Israel should let this and other hunger striking prisoners to die, until it becomes: a norm, and can’t serve any longer, as a blackmailing tool,
let him die – maybe he will influence other to follow his example….
If the hunger striker lives, Hamas will send flowers to a random IDF officer
I will almost bet Israel will release this prisoner as they have done before, but have they released a Jewish prisoner that is on hunger strike now, I think rules change in Israel depends on who you are, and it is not for their own.
Administrative detention is applied when they have no proof of an individual’s actions or motives, but view him as a danger. A journalist is a danger to every totalitarian state, hence his detention.