"You must realize that the hunger strike isn't a party, and we could be surprised by the death of some of them," Khalil al-Haya said at a solidarity tent for the strikers in the center of Gaza City.
"If that happens, you can expect both the expected and the unexpected from us," he said.
The two have been joined on hunger strike by at least 1,550 Palestinian prisoners, the bulk of whom began refusing food on April 17.
Asked if she thought Thiab and Halahleh could die in the coming days, she said, “Unfortunately if Israel is insisting on their position that these people remain in administrative detention, then the detainees will continue in their hunger strike and we will be in a situation where I am afraid that is what will happen.”
“We could lose these two detainees or others of course, because even being 50 days in hunger strike it doesn't mean you are still in good condition, you never know when the body could collapse,” she told Al-Akhbar.
The Islamic Jihad movement has threatened to no longer observe a truce with Israel if one of the hunger-strikers were to die.
Rallies in solidarity with the prisoners were staged on Friday across the Palestinian territories, with about 2,000 gathering in Ramallah in the West Bank.
The hunger strikers are calling for improved prison conditions, including increased access to lawyers and family visits, an end to solitary confinement, and an end to administrative detention.
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