Israel frees Palestinian hunger striker

Israel released on Sunday a Palestinian prisoner who had been on a hunger strike for 55 days, the official Palestinian Wafa news agency reported.

The hunger strike had left the 37-year-previous in important situation.

Adnan ended his hunger strike on June 28 after Israel agreed to release him in two weeks.

Adnan is known as a West Bank leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, an Iranian backed militant group in that has killed scores of Israelis in suicide bombings and rocket attacks. “It’s getting much worse”.

Khader, who has been under administrative detention for 11 months, was initially arrested in December of 2012, and has participated in at least one other hunger-strike with lasted sixty-six days.

“We are not interested in the proclamations [made by Palestinian militants] that if Hader dies in jail, they will get involved”, she said.

His family had also been denied visitation rights for “security reasons”. “There are guards watching him at all times”.

Islamic Jihad congratulated Adnan in a statement for his “victory” and said a celebration was being organised in his village of Arraba for Sunday evening. He was released at the end of the strike, during which he had ingested vitamins and salt.

The detainee has participated in several hunger strikes after repeated Israeli arrests. He refused to swallow anything except water during his most recent detention. Boulos said Monday that doctors at the Israeli hospital he was transferred to were considering ways to start feeding him.

There are now an estimated 426 Palestinians being held without charge by Israeli forces as “administrative detainees”, according to the Ramallah-based Addameer Prisoner Support Network.

The Palestinian leadership submitted a report to the worldwide Criminal Court last week that included the treatment of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.