Adnan is being held in “administrative detention”, a procedure under which Israel imprisons Palestinian suspects without trial indefinitely for renewable six-month periods.
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The official noted Adnan’s deteriorating health and the requests of the worldwide Committee of the Red Cross and Palestinian Authority to release him as contributing to the decision to free him. His wide Randa said on Monday after visiting the 37-year-old in an Israeli hospital that he had lost a lot of weight and “looked like a small child.” She said he was unable to hold their 15-month-old son, AP reported.
Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is a network of organizers and activists, based in North America, working to build solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in their struggle for freedom.
In a statement, the Palestinian Prisoners Club also confirmed that Mr Adnan had broken his hunger strike.
Israel says administrative detentions are an important tool against Palestinian militants.
He began his latest hunger strike on May 5 of this year to protest his ongoing imprisonment under Israel’s policy of administrative detention. The Israeli rights group B’Tselem says Israel’s large-scale use of the practice violates global law which only permits it in rare cases.
At 11:00 AM Israeli time on Monday, Israeli Emergency Medical Services were called in to transport the injured 20-year-old MP to Hadassah hospital, with a stab wound to her upper body.
He was rearrested by Israel on July 8 2014 at an Israeli army checkpoint near the northern West Bank city of Jenin.
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He was arrested as part of an Israeli mass roundup shortly after last June’s kidnapping and kill of three Israeli teenagers in the occupied West Bank.
