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Palestinian prisoner ends two-month hunger strike as Israel OKs release

Xinhua, June 29, 2015 Adjust font size:

Palestinian prisoner Khadar Adnan ended his 56-day-long hunger strike after Israel agreed to release him, an Israeli spokeswoman said Monday.

"Adnan ended the hunger strike and is due to be released on July 12," Sivan Weizmann, a spokeswoman for the Israel Prison Service, told Xinhua.

She added that Adnan is still at Assaf Harofeh Hospital in central Israel due to his deteriorated health condition.

Israel agreed to release Adnan after an overnight meeting between his lawyer and the management of the Prison Service.

An Israeli security official told Israel's Walla news that the decision to release him was taken in view of his deteriorated health condition and an appeal by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Adnan, a 37-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank village of Arraba, near Jenin, went on hunger strike in protest at his 11-month-long administrative detention, which allows renewable periods of imprisonment up to six months without trial.

According to an Israeli security official, Adnan is a member of the Islamic Jihad.

In a previous term, he served in administrative detention in 2012, he held a 66-day hunger strike, the longest ever in Israel. He ended that strike after Israel promised to release him.

But in July 2014, he was recaptured and put in administrative detention again without charge.

The Palestinian National Authority had warned Israel that it will be held accountable should Adnan die in prison.

The Israeli cabinet is pushing forward a legislation to allow force-feeding of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike. It is yet to be approved by the Knesset (parliament).

There are some 6,500 Palestinian prisoners imprisoned in 18 jails and detention centers across Israel, according to the Palestinian Club for Prisoners in Israeli jails. Endit