Monday, 19 March, 2012
PALESTINIAN HUNGER STRIKER HANA SHALABI HOSPITALIZED
Palestinian protesters hold posters of Hana Shalabi in 2011. (file photo)
Aletho News
March 20, 2012
Female Palestinian prisoner Hana Shalabi, who has been on a hunger strike since February 16, has been hospitalized.
“Hana Shalabi was transferred this evening to Israel’s Meir hospital after her state of health deteriorated,” Palestinian Prisoner Affairs Minister Issa Qaraqaa said on Monday.
An independent doctor from Physicians for Human Rights-Israel who examined Shalabi said her life was at risk. The doctor described a weakening of her muscles, weight loss of 14 kilograms, and a very weak pulse.
She has been on a hunger strike since her arrest in the northern West Bank on February 16. She was originally ordered to be detained without trial for six months.
Although Shalabi was among more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners released in October 2011 in exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, she was later re-arrested and sent back to prison.
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