This weekend, Adnan will have been on his hunger strike for eight weeks. His health is now considered to have reached a seriously dangerous stage.
Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-I) denounced the fact that the Mayanei HaYeshua Medical Centerm has allowed Adnan to be hospitalized in chains, noting that in doing so the hospital is in violation of medical ethics, as well as the instructions of the Israeli Health Ministry and Israeli physicians organizations.
PHR-I's president, Dr. Ruhama Marton, demanded that the chains be removed. She noted that "the chaining of a prisoner to bed is intended solely for the purpose of humiliating him and causing him physical and mental hardship. The security argument is invalid in this case. The chaining of a patient to a bed is contrary to international law."
The medical center where Adnan has been chained to his bed, has this to say about itself on its website:
"Mayanei HaYeshua Medical Center was founded in Bnei Brak in 1990 by Dr. Moshe Rothschild, as a public/private hospital, in order to provide advanced medical services in the spirit of Halacha (Jewish religious law).
"For Dr. Rothschild, a man rich in public service, the Medical Center was his life's crowning achievement -- a modern hospital meeting the highest standards of medicine and technology, and run, down to the smallest details, according to the most meticulous dictates of Halacha, which would provide a warm home for patients in many and varied fields."
In a letter Khader Adnan wrote this weekend from Zeiv Hospital, where he is now receiving treatment, Adnan vowed to continue with his strike.
"I started my battle offering my soul to God almighty and adamant to go ahead until righteousness triumphs over falsehood. I am defending my dignity and my people's dignity and not doing this in vain."The Israeli occupation has gone to extremes against our people, especially prisoners. I have been humiliated, beaten, and harassed by interrogators for no reason, and thus I swore to God I would fight the policy of administrative detention to which I and hundreds of my fellow prisoners fell prey."
His letter, delivered by Jalal Abu Wasil, a lawyer from the Palestinian ministry of prisoners affairs, who visited him in hospital, added that Adnan refused to be examined by doctors.
"Here I am in a hospital bed surrounded with prison wardens, handcuffed, and my foot tied to the bed. The only thing I can do is offer my soul to God as I believe righteousness and justice will eventually triumph over tyranny and oppression.
"I hereby assert that I am confronting the occupiers not for my own sake as an individual, but for the sake of thousands of prisoners who are being deprived of their simplest human rights while the world and international community look on.
"It is time the international community and the UN support prisoners and force the State of Israel to respect international human rights and stop treating prisoners as if they were not humans."
Administrative detention as an Israeli policy is the target of Adnan's hunger strike. Young people (see picture at top) gather in Ramallah to protest Adnan's detention. Musa Adnan, Khader's father, had joined his son in the hunger strike. Musa Adnan is pictured above, talking with a reporter.
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