Palestinian hunger striking journalist Mohammed Al-Qiq is near death after being without food for 64 days. Two days ago Mohammed lost consciousness, he is on verge of organ failure. Abducted in November, father of two young children, Mohammed Al-Qiq is being held without charge or trial under Israels illegal practice of administrative detention.

Israel has a history of targeting journalists either with live ammunition or otherwise by abducting them. In the last year alone, 574 attacks against Palestinian journalists by Israeli forces have been catalogued, two of which resulted in death. Currently there are at least 17 Palestinian journalists caged in Israeli prisons. Mohammed al-Qiq is one such journalist.