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ISRAEL’S SUPREME COURT has rescheduled the appeal hearing of a Palestinian prisoner who has begun a tenth week of his hunger strike protest.
The hearing was due to take place on Thursday, but has been brought forward to tomorrow, according to a statement from the court. It did not specify why the hearing was being rescheduled.
Khader Adnan, 33, has lost 30 kilos since he stopped eating in mid-December in protest over Israel’s policy of long-term detention without trial. Under ‘administrative detention’, Israeli authorities can hold prisoners without charge or trial for up to six months. The detention periods can also be renewed.
He was arrested on 17 December and has been sentenced to four months of administrative detention. His protest began on 18 December.
According to Adnan’s family, he is a member of the Islamic Jihad militant group responsible for killing dozens of Israelis, but it is not known if he was involved in violence. Adnan says he does not know what he is accused or suspected of doing.
On Friday, Al Jazeera reported that the Israeli military had issued a statement saying that Adnan was arrested over activities that threaten regional security, adding that a judicial review had approved the arrest warrant.
Earlier this month, Human Rights Watch called on Israeli authorities to either release Adnan or charge him. HRW said his family and doctors had said that his health had seriously deteriorated since he began the hunger strike on 18 December.
The organisation says that a 2006 British Medical Association study of hunger strikes in Northern Ireland found that death generally occurred between 55 and 75 days, and that the ‘final stage’ of the strike came between 45 and 75 days due to the physical impact of the food deprivation.
The EU’s foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said over the weekend that the EU was following Adnan’s case with great concern, and called on the Israeli government “to do all it can to preserve the health of Mr Adnan in its continuing handling of this case”.
The Jerusalem Post reports that Adnan has been in prison nine times over five years and that this is his first detention in which his wife Randa has been permitted to visit him. She told the newspaper that her husband hasn’t told her what will make him end his strike.
- Additional reporting by the AP
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Pyjamas must be good at blocking the sun
As usual the rest of the flipping country doesn’t exist !?
This is the journal.ie not the farmers journal!
Complain to Trinity! It was their study!
My only regret… is that I have.. boneitis
Boneitis?does that mean you keep getting boners?
Looks like anyone on the Northside is in big trouble!!
How do u figure that as there are no figures given for the northside ?
Hang on pal,I live on the north side and at this moment I’m basking in glorious sunshine out de back and my vitamin D levels have gone true de roof.I wouldn’t dream of living on de southside.must dash now and put some factor 30 on.
@Gerry Fallon: Doo de rite in de code?
The people who are vitamin D deprived are sitting in darkened rooms shooting up or smoking crystal meth … We know thats how they roll in Lucan… bitches…
They show a map of D deficiency across South Dublin not Dublin. Typically Dublin finishesat the liffey.
Anyone who thinks doing a study to raise awareness of a deficiency in Vit D is crap or wonders ‘does anyone care?’, is very ignorant and a bit thick.This is incredibly important.And should be shared through social media.Its a huge problem and maybe some people on here should attend hospitals and talk to people with the resulting ailments and ask them,’if you had known you had a vit D deficiency and all you needed was to take a supplement to avoid unnecessary pain,would you have taken one?’.'I’d wish i’d known’-would probably be the overwhelming answer.
@(((Dar o Rourke))): Good start to your campaign with the thick and ignorant name calling. Btw you still need sunlight to activate the D supplement you take, you should add that to the rant.
Good luck.
There are also links between mental health issues and vitamin D deficiency. This study is definitely not a waste of time.
@Cormac Laffan: Thanks Cormac .Would you mind showing me some supporting evidence that a Vit D supplement needs sunlight to be activated please?
@(((Dar o Rourke))):
Full article,
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK56061/
Breakdown image,
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK56061/figure/ch3.f1/?report=objectonly
Lots of misinformation about, of course people will be ignorant of the research, don’t forget the researchers were too.
Sun and supplements together are best practice atm, especially in Ireland.
Good to be reminded though, must pick some up this week
@Cormac Laffan: Cheers Cormac,I see where you are coming from.The name calling was due to the seriousness of this as their comments were getting a good few ‘likes’ which was concerning.
Have these people nothing better to do? Who pays for this crap?
Does anyone actually care?
The problem with vitamin D3 deficiency is lack of sunlight and medical professionals. Saying that high doses of V 3 are dangerous. There are a 1000 studies and results of these double blind studies available on google medical research sites from all over the world. Stanford university is a leader in this research. I am a living experiment at 70 yrs of age I started taking VD 3 in 2011 on the advise of a research student at Stanford who was involved in the research and had her father a friend of mine on Vd 3. After the first 3 months of taking 20 to 30000 units per day my right shoulder which had been badly injured in accident in 1999 fully recovered and several other joint ailments I had already went away 4 years later I am still using it and feel wonderful I haven’t had a cold or flu. Since March 2012. I am a retired civil servant and I buy myVd 3 on amazon as you cannot buy the higher doses in Ireland only about 1000 iu. Because medical fraternity don’t either know or believe in it besides which I am in great health and only visit doc every 12 months for annual check. Vitamin D3 doesn’t cure anything it simply boosts your immune system to fight illness… we usually get poor sunlight In Ireland.. this summer was an exception.
Further to above vitamin D3 is a secosteroid naturally occurring In the body when strong sunlight hits the skin. It’s technical name is cholecalciferol and it is too complex for pharmaceutical co to make it. It is actually harvested from Sheeps wool and the main. Source seems to be China at the moment When Sheeps wool is boiled the white foAm that comes off the wool is dried and forms a white powdery substance which is then refined and either sold In Tiny tablet form of is in capsule form in lanolin. We need to take it on a daily basis as it only stays In The body about 24 hours it is stored in out body fat. All this information is on google
@John Mullins: I take 10000iu daily. My D3 levels are very low. It helps, especially in the winter to lift depression.
Not very extensive
Just take a supplement in winter problem.solved !
Need the run to activate it
*sun
@An_Beal_Bocht: Where does it say that you need the sun to activate the supplement?
@An_Beal_Bocht: You don’t need the sun to “activate” it. Your body can metabolise D3 in supplement form. In fact, it’s required to supplement it the more northern you go due to less sunlight.
Terrible map and description really. Let’s pick a few random spots and the call it Dublin? So many areas missing…
Appears to be zero north of the Liffey? Presumably only southsiders have a God given right to sun?!
Just heard Ryan air are to build a terminal in D16.
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