The EU sensationalises hunger strikes and protects Israel's violations
Ramona Wadi- Do EU diplomats need to see visual proof of hunger strikers' weakened bodies to issue statements?
Had the wife of hunger striking Palestinian prisoner Khalil Awawdeh not publicised photos of her husband’s emaciated body, the EU would have felt no urge to call for his release. “Shocked by the horrible picture of Awawdeh who is hunger striking now for 169 days in protest against his detention without charges and is in imminent danger of dying,” the EU Delegation to the Palestinians tweeted. “Unless charged immediately, he has to be released.” What good fortune that photos were made available for the EU to assume an activist stance for a few seconds on social media, while completely missing the point that Palestinian hunger strikes are a response to Israel’s colonial violence and impunity.
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