Today, 21 March 2012, marks the 35th day of hunger strike by Palestinian prisoner Hanaa’ Yihya Ash-Shalabi, 30.
 In the early morning hours of Thursday 16 February 2012, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) re-arrested Ash Shalabi only four months after she had been released from prior Israeli custody.
  She was sentenced to six months’ administrative detention and jailed at HaSharon prison.
  At approximately 1:30 am on Thursday 16 February 2012, the IOF surrounded Hanaa’ Ash-Shalabi’s house, which is located on Ash-Shuhadaa street in Barqeen village, in the Jenin governorate of the West Bank, and arrested her.
  On the first day of her detention Hanaa’ was kept in solitary confinement at the Al Jalama prison in the West Bank.
  On the second day, she was transferred to HaSharon prison in Israel.
  Ash-Shalabi refused to appear before the Israeli military court there, which sentenced her to administrative detention for a period of six months.
 According to information available to the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, Hanaa’s health condition continues to deteriorate.
 She has been referred to a hospital due to her continuing hunger strike.
  It is worth noting that the IOF had released Ash-Shalabi from a previous term of administrative detention in the prisoner swap of October 2011, during which the IOF released 1,027 Palestinian prisoners.
 On 14 September 2009, the IOF had arrested Ash-Shalabi, and her administrative detention was extended by default procedures until the time of the prisoner swap.
  Ms.
Ash-Shalabi’s health condition is described in a recent press release issued by Physician for Human Rights - Israel, whose doctors carried out a medical examination on Tuesday 20 March 2012.
 Following the examination and blood tests it was found that Ms.
Ash-Shalabi “is in danger of imminent death.
”  She is suffering from “muscle breakdown, .
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a very slow pulse, low blood pressure, serious pain throughout her body, .
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and damage to the thyroid functions.
”   Al Mezan notes that, as part of its efforts to obtain justice for Hanaa’ and secure her release, it has sent an urgent appeal to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and contributed to the drafting of a press release by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network on her case.
 However, Al Mezan does not see any tangible and effective international efforts to exert pressure on Israeli authorities to release her.
 Ms.
Ash-Shalabi’s detention is violation of human rights principles.
 She has spent more than two years in prison as an administrative detainee.
 She was detained without charges or trial, in violation of minimum standards of fair judicial process.
 The situation in the occupied West Bank and the complete Israeli security control there do not justify her continuous detention and deprivation of the rights to fair trial and meaningful legal defense.
  Al Mezan strongly condemns Israel’s continuing detention of Hanaa’ Ash-Shalabi and condemns any inhumane treatment to which she may have been subjected.
  Al Mezan emphasizes that the Ash-Shalabi case reveals the IOF’s violation of the most basic human rights principles, particularly the right of detainees to dignity and to fair trial.
  Al Mezan also expresses its concern for Ash Shalabi’s life and holds the international community responsible for her well-being.
  Al Mezan calls on the international community to intervene and asserts that its silence regarding ongoing Israeli violations of international human rights law has only encouraged Israel to carry out further violations, including ratification of racist laws which contradict the norms of international justice.
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