Spanish flotilla activist detained by Israel escalates protest with dry strike

Spanish activist detained by Israel is conducting a dry strike (refusing food and water), creating immediate health risks and raising concerns about mistreatment in custody.

In the long and troubled history of bodies used as political instruments, a Spanish activist named Abukeshek now refuses both food and water in an Israeli detention facility, having been seized while attempting to reach Gaza by sea. His escalation from hunger strike to dry strike — a distinction measured not in weeks but in days of survivable time — compresses the moral urgency of his situation into something the body itself cannot defer. The United Nations has called for his immediate release and an investigation into alleged mistreatment, while Spain's government has raised its voice through

Spanish flotilla activist detained by Israel escalates protest with dry strike

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