Palestinian enters uncharted domain with 89-day fast

A Palestinian detainee has entered uncharted medical domain with a craving strike of 89 days – longer than criticism fasts by other Palestinians or by prisoners in Northern Ireland in 1981, an advocacy organisation pronounced Monday.

Qeq began his craving strike on Nov. 25 to win recover from supposed executive detention.

for Human Rights-Israel, an advocacy group, pronounced Monday that Qeq has been on a craving strike longer than any other Palestinian detainee or any of a participants in 1981 criticism strikes by Irish Republican Army prisoners hold by Britain in Northern Ireland.

The prior dual longest craving strikes by Palestinian detainees were 66 and 67 days.

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