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Right-wing Israeli lawmaker Ìýon Tuesday allegedly tried to storm aÌýhospital roomÌýto harass aÌýPalestinian detainee who was recovering after a 141-day hunger strike, the prisoner's family has told °®Âþµº.

Palestinian hunger strikerÌýHisham Abu HawashÌýwas taken toÌýthe Asaf Harofeh hospital south of Tel Aviv on 26 December after his health seriously deteriorated. He protesting hisÌýdetention without trial or charge on Tuesday,Ìýfollowing a deal with Israeli authorities to release him.

Imad Abu Hawash, Hisham’s brother, said that hisÌýfamily was in the detainee's hospital room when they heard "insults in Hebrew" comingÌýtowards them.

"I came out and saw that it was accompanied by his bodyguards and Baruch Martin, a settler leader in Hebron," Imad Abu Hawash told °®Âþµº.

The Knesset member "tried to push his way into Hisham's room, but solidarity activists who were present and family members blocked his way", Abu Hawash said.

"Ben Gvir called us terrorists and other ugly names and he even pushed one of the activists who was replying to his insults," he said.

Ben Gvir, a member of Knesset from theÌýReligious Zionist Party, is well-known for provoking Palestinian prisoners'Ìýfamilies.

In 2018, he famously walked onto a bus transporting Palestinian prisoners' family members on their way to visit loved ones in a detention facility to verbally insult them.

Not itamar ben gvir showing up at the hospital where has just won his freedom - after 140 days of hunger strike - to protest ending Hishams unjust administrative detention...
Fascists.

— Dana El Kurd دانا الكرد (@danaelkurd)

Following the escape of six Palestinian inmatesÌýfrom Israel's high-security Gilboa PrisonÌýin September, GvirÌýtweeted that Israeli forces should have killed Palestinian prisoners before they escaped.

In December, following a visit to the Ofer prison, he said Israeli security forces should be given authorisation to kill prisoners when they protest.

According to human rights groups, some 500 Palestinians are currently held in Israeli jails without trial or charge, among them four children and one woman.

On Sunday, the Palestinian Prisoners'ÌýClub declared that all detainees who have not been charged willÌý Israeli court hearings as of 1 January, in an open-end collective protest move.