Palestine National Council (PNC) called for urgent and rapid intervention to save the life of the prisoner Maher Abdul Latif Hassan Al-Akhras, who was on hunger strike for the 74th consecutive day, in protest against the arbitrary Israeli administrative detention policy against him, while he is facing extremely dangerous health conditions.

In a statement issued today, Thursday, PNC warned of the danger of death threatening the life of the prisoner Al-Akhras (49 years old), who is married and has six children, the youngest of whom is a six-year-old girl. Al-Akhras faces, with his empty stomachs, the policy of the Israeli prisoners and the slowdown in his release.

PNC held Israel fully responsible for the life of the prisoner Al-Akhras, calling on human rights institutions and other international organizations to shoulder their responsibilities in this regard, and to break the cycle of the dominating silence, and hold Israel responsible for its actions.
Israel has violated and exceeded all international controls and standards in the treatment of Palestinian prisoners which are stipulated in all relevant conventions and treaties, to make its actions a war crime against Palestinian detainees, PNC added
PNC appealed to international and regional parliamentary unions and human rights committees in international parliaments to pressure the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) and its occupation government to put an end to its policy of administrative detention as a method of collective punishment, which affected all age groups, including children, women, elderly, sick and political leaders.
PNC indicated that at a time when the world is facing the continuing spread of the Coronavirus, the Israeli occupation authorities continue to carry out daily arrests of Palestinian citizens, and transfer dozens of them to administrative detention.
There are (350) administrative detainees in the Israeli occupation prisons, PNC confirmed, stressing that this type of detention is considered an occupation collective punishment, especially if we know that the occupation authorities have issued more than (54) thousand administrative detention decisions since its occupation in 1967, from Among them (800) decisions since the beginning of 2020.