The Israeli Supreme Court has once again refused to release Palestinian prisoner Khalil Awawda, who has been on a hunger strike for 127 days, despite the seriousness of his health condition.

Awawd’s lawyer, Ahlam Haddad, said in a press statement that “the court maintains that it is not the body to appeal the August 21 decision and that we have not come up with anything new until the decision is changed from a freeze to a release.”

Awawda, 40, from the town of Isna, west of Hebron, is reportedly continuing his hunger strike to refuse administrative detention amid widespread calls for his release due to the severity of his health condition. Awawda resumed his strike on July 2, 2022 after suspending it earlier after 111 days of strike on the basis of promises of his release, but the Israeli authorities broke their promise and placed him in administrative detention for a period of four months; Knowing that he has been in custody since December 27, 2021.