DETAINED Palestinian journalist Muhammad al-Qiq has gone 92 days without food in an Israeli prison and could die at any moment, a lawyer warned yesterday.

Palestinian prisoner affairs committee lawyer Hiba Masalha said that Mr Qiq could no longer breathe easily and was in severe pain.

His body has “collapsed,” Ms Masalha said, his heart rate abnormally slow and his vision and speech severely impaired.

She added that even if Mr Qiq lived, it was unlikely he would ever fully recover from the damage to his system from the three-month hunger strike.

The reporter for the Saudi-owned Almajd TV network began his hunger strike shortly after his arrest by Israeli occupation forces at his family home in the West Bank town of Ramallah on November 21 2015.

He was accused of terrorist activities for the political movement Hamas and on December 17 placed in administrative detention, a form of imprisonment without trial used by Israel almost exclusively against Palestinians that may be extended indefinitely.

Mr Qiq had been jailed in 2003, 2004 and 2008 for a total of 30 months over allegations of working for Hamas and for his activities on the student council at the West Bank’s Birzeit University.

A report released yesterday by Israeli human-rights groups B’Tselem and HaMoked detailed dozens of cases of prisoner abuse — some amounting to torture — in a single detention centre.

It contained accounts by 116 Palestinian detainees of conditions at the Shikma interrogation facility, which is run by the Israeli Shin Bet internal security agency.

The report said that detainees were incarcerated in small, rank cells, often in isolation, and denied visits from their lawyers.

It added that they were exposed to extremes of heat or cold, bound to a chair and denied access to a shower for long periods.

Detainees were shouted at and spat on, deprived of sleep and provided little and substandard food, the report said.

“Conditions at the Shikma facility are an inherent part of interrogations there,” B’Tselem and HaMoked said.

“The combination of conditions both in and outside the interrogation room constitutes abuse and inhuman, degrading treatment, at times even amounting to torture.”