Max Wahlund

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Israel-Palestina-konflikten

(16 Aug 2022) 
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++CORRECTION - PLEASE NOTE THIS STORY FIRST RAN IN ERROR AS ISRAEL HUNGER STRIKE - OFER PRISON IS IN THE WEST BANK++
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Ofer prison, near Jerusalem, West Bank - 16 August 2022
1. Various of exterior of Ofer military prison
2. Establishing shot of Ahlam Haddad, a lawyer for Palestinian hunger striker Khalil Awawdeh
3. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Ahlam Haddad, Khalil Awawdeh's lawyer:
"On March 22, he decided to start a hunger strike as a protest against the administrative detention in general and the administrative detention against him."
4. Haddad
5. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Ahlam Haddad, Khalil Awawdeh's lawyer: 
"He is in immediate danger if he hasn't lost his life (yet) and that's why the dispute is verbal. Our problems as lawyers are that we cannot view the material related to intelligence and the confidential material. The arrested himself also doesn't know why he was arrested, what is the suspicion against him, everything is very general."
6. Haddad talking on the phone
7. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Ahlam Haddad, Khalil Awawdeh's lawyer: 
"It (the court) says there is still danger. How is there still danger from this man who is confined to his bed? He is chained, and by the way, he must not be chained in the hospital, and he is chained."
8. Haddad talking on the phone
9. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Ahlam Haddad, Khalil Awawdeh's lawyer: 
"There are no visits, no phone calls, there's nothing. So what danger are they talking when he is in an immediate life-threatening situation according to the doctors from the prisons authority. And that's why I'm saying that justice was not done with that man. We turn to the higher court, that is the Supreme Court in Jerusalem in order maybe to get the relief requested which is his release from administrative detention."
10. Sign reading (Hebrew): "Welcome to the military courts" 
11. Exterior of Ofer prison
STORYLINE:
An Israeli military court on Monday rejected an appeal for release by a Palestinian prisoner whose health is deteriorating as he continues a 165-day hunger strike to protest being held without charge or trial, his lawyer said.
Khalil Awawdeh is one of several Palestinian detainees who have gone on prolonged hunger strikes over the years in protest of what is known as administrative detention. 
Israel says the 40-year-old father of four is a militant, an allegation Awawdeh denies through his lawyer. 
The Islamic Jihad militant group demanded his release as part of an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire ending three days of heavy fighting in the Gaza Strip earlier this month but did not identify him as a member.
Israel says administrative detention is needed to keep dangerous militants off the streets and to hold suspects without divulging sensitive intelligence. 
Critics say the form of detention, which is almost exclusively used for Palestinians, denies them due process. 
Administrative detainees can be held for months or years without charge or trial.
Ahlam Haddad, a lawyer for Awawdeh, confirmed that the military court had rejected his appeal for release. 
He has not eaten during the strike, except for a 10-day period in which he received vitamin injections, according to his family.
Israel's Shin Bet internal security service has not commented on his case.
Israel is currently holding some 4,400 Palestinian prisoners, including militants who have carried out deadly attacks, as well as people arrested at protests or for throwing stones. 
Israel says it provides due process and largely imprisons those who threaten its security, though a small number are held for petty crimes.
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