RAMALLAH, Nov 7 (NNN-WAFA) – A Palestinian prisoner, who had been on a hunger strike for 103 days, in an Israeli jail, suspended his strike yesterday, following an agreement with Israel, to release him on Nov 26, an organisation official said.
In a press statement, the Palestinian Prisoners Club Association said, Maher al-Akhras, 50, from the northern West Bank city of Jenin, “will spend the upcoming 20 days in hospital, for medical treatment, as his health conditions had deteriorated after 103 days of a hunger strike.”
Israel accused al-Akhras of being a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement (PIJ). However, his wife, Taghrid al-Akhras, said that, her husband doesn’t belong to any faction.
Islamic Hamas movement and the PIJ said, in two separate statements that, al-Akhras succeeded in obliging the Israeli side not to renew his administrative detention and release him.– NNN-WAFA
