JERUSALEM, The European Union said it was shocked at pictures of nothing more than skin and bones of Palestinian administrative detainee in Israel, Khalil Awawda, after 169 days of hunger strike demanding to be set free.

“Shocked by the horrible pictures of Awawda who is hunger striking now for 169 days in protest against his detention without charges and is in imminent danger of dying,” said the EU office in Jerusalem in a tweet. “Unless charged immediately, he has to be released,” it stressed.

Awawda, from the town of Idna in the south of the West Bank, has been on hunger strike to protest his prolonged administrative detention. He was promised to be released after completing 111 days of hunger strike, but Israel quickly reneged on its promise and renewed his detention for four more months prompting him to continue with his hunger strike.

Source: Palestine News & Info Agency