RAMALLAH, Jan 5 (NNN-WAFA) – A Palestinian, imprisoned in an Israeli jail, yesterday, ended his 141-day hunger strike, after Israel decided to release him, senior Palestinian official for prisoners’ affairs, Qadri Abu Bakker, said.
Hisham Abu Hawash, a 40-year-old father of five, from Dura village, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, began refusing to eat since Aug, in protest of Israel’s detention of him without charges.
A member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant movement, Abu Hawash, was being held under administrative detention, a controversial practice of arresting suspects for months, without allowing them to view the charges or evidence against them.
His lawyer, Khaled Mahajneh, told reporters that, Israel agreed not to extend the detention beyond Feb 26.
Abu Hawash was hospitalised in Dec. He became frail and unconscious in recent days, in an Israeli hospital, which on Sunday, denied reports that the man’s life was in danger.
According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel is holding more than 4,000 Palestinians, in 23 prisons and detention camps, including 34 women.– NNN-WAFA
