ICRC warns Palestinian prisoner enters medically critical phase after over 85 days of hunger strike

Palestinian prisoner Maher al-Akhras is entering a medically “critical phase”, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) warns, as the inmate has entered the 88th consecutive day of his open-ended hunger strike against Israel’s so-called policy of administrative detention.

“More than 85 days into the hunger

"More than 85 days into the hunger strike, we are concerned about potentially irreversible health consequences,"