Tagged: hunger strike

Samer Issawi

Issawi continues hunger strike, stops supplements, rejects negotiations

  About one hour ago, Shireen Issawi – Samer’s sister – posted the following on her Facebook page – on day 276 of Samer Issawi’s hunger strike:   “The head of the Legal Unit of the Prisoners Society, the lawyer Jawad Boulos, declared today from Kaplan Medical Center that political prisoner Samer Issawi has decided to stop taking nutritional supplements...

Samer Issawi's defiance

Samer Issawi at risk of imminent death, on artificial ventilation

Ramallah, Palestine – Lawyer Shireen Issawi, sister of the hunger-striking Jerusalemite political prisoner Samer Issawi, has confirmed that her brother is living in an extremely critical health situation. She indicated that “at the moment, he is living on artificial ventilation, and is in danger of dying at any instance.” Issawi also clarified in a report to Palestine that her brother...

Mother of Samer Issawi holding his picture

Samer Issawi has stopped taking vitamin supplements

RAMALLAH, PALESTINE – The president of the legal union of the Palestinian Prisoner Society, lawyer Jawad Boulos, today announced that a session would be held on Thursday March 21 in Ofer Military Court concerning the case of Palestinian political prisoner Samer Issawi, on an uninterrupted hunger strike since 243 days. Boulos explained that the doctors of Kaplan Medical Center had...

Samer Issawi : “I refused water not for love of death but for freedom and dignity”

Shireen Issawi, the sister of Palestinian detainee Samer Issawi who is on a months-long hunger strike against his imprisonment by the Israeli occupation forces, reported on Wednesday that her brother had successfully thwarted Israeli attempts to coerce him to end his hunger strike.   According to Shireen,  an intelligence officer of the Occupation forces on Tuesday threatened Samer inside the...