Mashaal, Ghoshe suffer deteriorated health

Khaled Mashaal, Ibrahim Ghoshe and four of their personal guards ended their hunger strike, which lasted for five days in a prison in Jordan. Abd El-Magid Nerinibat, the general supervisor for the Moslem Brothers said that Mashaal, Ghoshe and their colleagues agreed to take food in an attempt to prove good intentions toward King Abdullah Jordan.

The Arab Human Rights Organization in Jordan had announced that the health of the chairman of the political bureau of the Hamas resistance movement, Khaled Mashaal, and its spokesman in Jordan, Ibrahim Ghoshe, have been deteriorated in one of the Jordanian prisons three days after they announced a hunger strike.

In a statement, the organization said that a delegation led by the organization's chairman, lawyer Najeeb al-Rashdaan, and a doctor on Tuesday visited the "two Hamas detainees" in al-Jweida prison in Amman's outskirts of Amman and found that their "conditions in the prison are good but their health is deteriorating because of the hunger strike, as their food is limited to water only."

The statement added that after the organization's doctor, Rajaee Nafaa, carried out medical checks on the two men he found that "Ibrahim Ghoshe's blood pressure is a little bit high and that Mashaal feels pains whenever he kneels for prayers."

The delegation told Mashaal and Goshe about efforts exerted to release them and asked them to "suspend the hunger strike so as to avail such efforts to continue."

Ghoshe and Mashaal said that the reason for their food strike was because of "their feelings of being oppressed as a result of their detention without a reason." They stressed their readiness to "respond to any request that complies with the principles and ideals they fight for."