February 17th, 2012, the father and daughter of Khader Adnan took part in a demonstration in Adnan’s village of Arrabeh, near Jenin. Several thousand Palestinians demonstrated in Gaza and the West Bank in support of Adnan, who has been on a hunger strike since December 18th, to protest against his detention without charge by the Israeli government. (Photo REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini)
The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, stated that the “EU is concerned over reports of the deteriorating health condition of Khader Adnan.” She went on to say that “the EU is concerned about the extensive use by Israel of administrative detention without formal charge.”
A Doctor who examined Khader on Wednesday, February 15th, said he is “in immediate danger of death.”
The Jimmy Carter Center in Atlanta issued the following statement on February 16th:
“The Carter Center calls on the Israeli government to immediately charge or release Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan, who was arrested on Dec. 17, 2011, based on ‘secret evidence’ and has been held in administrative detention without charge. Mr. Adnan has undertaken a hunger strike since his arrest 62 days ago and his life is in imminent danger. His grave medical condition has been verified by Physicians for Human Rights-Israel.”
Support for Khader Adnan has also come from Ireland where Oliver Hughes, whose brother Francis Hughes and cousin Thomas McElwee died along with eight others during a hunger strike in 1981, sent a message of support to Khader Adnan. The message can be viewed on YouTube. Tommy McKearney, an Irish man who went 53 days on Hunger Strike also sent a video message to Khader Adnan as he entered his 54th day last week.
(via gazatvnews, h/t Norman Finkelstein)
