Khader Adnan, a leader in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group, is the first Palestinian prisoner to die since Palestinian inmates began staging protracted hunger strikes about a decade ago…
A high-profile Palestinian prisoner died in Israeli custody on Tuesday after a nearly three-month hunger strike, Israel’s prison service announced, at a time of already soaring tensions between Israel and the Palestinians.
Palestinians called for a general strike in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and protests were expected later in the day. Around 200 people gathered outside Adnan’s home in the occupied West Bank town of Arraba, holding signs bearing his image and called for revenge. Relatives of Khader Adnan mourn at his family home in the West Bank village of Arrabe on May 2, 2023.Among his six hunger strikes was a 66-day protest in 2012, and two other strikes in 2015 and 2018 that lasted 56 and 58 days respectively. He is credited with turning hunger strikes into a recurring tool for protest among Palestinian detainees and a useful bargaining chip against Israeli authorities.
Israel is currently holding over 1,000 Palestinian detainees without charge or trial, the highest number since 2003, according to the Israeli human rights group HaMoked. Several Palestinians have gone on prolonged hunger strike in recent years to protest being held in administrative detention. Physicians for Human Rights Israel, the rights group said that a doctor who had visited him several days ago had written a medical opinion outlining the immediate risk to his life, but that those entreaties were ignored.
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