The last thing Israel’s Foreign Ministry needs on the 25th anniversary of the peace treaty with Jordan, signed Oct. 26, 1994, is yet another crisis in the highly charged, complex relationship with the Hashemite Kingdom. However, that is precisely what will happen unless Israel speedily resolves the affair of a Jordanian national, Heba al-Labadi, held in detention since August, who has been on a hunger strike for over a month.

On Oct. 28, 36 days after her hunger strike began, Labadi’s condition deteriorated and she was hospitalized at the Bnai Zion Medical Center in Haifa. She insists she will not eat until she is freed, even if it means dying in an Israeli jail. Jordanian media are following the affair play by play, much to Israel’s discomfort.

She was detained on Aug. 20 as she arrived with her mother and aunt at the Allenby Bridge crossing from Jordan, on her way to a family wedding in the Palestinian West Bank town of Jenin. She was picked up by Shin Bet security agents and has been in detention ever since, but so far she has not been indicted. According to her family, she was tortured in captivity. Security sources say she was detained on suspicion of involvement in serious security-related offenses.

The arrest has generated a human rights campaign for Labadi’s release, with a dedicated “Free Heba” Facebook page and hashtag. According to the Facebook page, she was tied to a chair in a position that caused her pain in the back, neck and arms, and her interrogators spit at her and threatened her in order to elicit a confession. They also threatened to arrest her mother and sister who had arrived earlier to the West Bank and extend her detention without trial for up to 7.5 years.