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Thursday 04 Feb 2016 - 12:58 Makkah mean time-25-4-1437
Palestinian hunger striker Mohammad al-Qiq (AFP Photo)
Ramallah (IINA) – The Israeli occupation authorities have decided to forcibly treat the Palestinian hunger striker detainee, journalist Mohammad al-Qiq, according to Chairman of the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Commission Issa Qaraqe, WAFA reported.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Israeli ethics committee at Afula hospital, where the Palestinian detainee is being hospitalized, said that al-Qiq is on the verge of death following 71 consecutive days of hunger strike in protest against his administrative detention, without charge or trial.
Iyad Mesk, an attorney with the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS), said the Israeli ethics committee, composed of nine physicians, concluded that al-Qiq’s health has reached a very critical stage and that he faces the possibility of death at any moment, stressing that even if he survives, he will still remain at risk of a potential failure of various organs.
The commission said that medical reports issued by Afula hospital are merely pro forma reports, given the fact that al-Qiq has been rejecting to undergo any medical tests, including blood and electrocardiogram (ECG) examinations.
The commission also accused the Israeli Supreme Court of being an “accomplice” with the Israeli 'extreme right-wing government’, in its blatant disregard to al-Qiq’s health deterioration.
In a statement issued Tuesday, UN Coordinator for Humanitarian Assistance and Development Aid Robert Piper expressed grave concern over Israel’s continued practice of administrative detention, without charge or trial. “I am alarmed by the rapidly deteriorating health of Palestinian administrative detainee, Mohammed Al-Qiq, who is on hunger strike in protest against the arbitrary nature of his detention and ill-treatment,” he said.
Piper reiterated 'the UN long-standing position' that all administrative detainees – Palestinian or Israeli – should be charged or released without delay.
It may be mentioned here that the World Medical Association's declarations on hunger strikers, including the Malta Declaration “forbids applying pressure to end a hunger strike and forced medical treatment.” The Tokyo Declaration "forbids physicians' participation in torture, including the forced feeding or treatment of hunger strikers.”
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