2023-05-02 22:58:56
The death of Khader Adnan sparked Palestinian anger
The Israeli bombardment continues on the Gaza Strip, while the Palestinian factions said that they fired their missiles at Israel in response to the death of Khader Adnan in Israeli prisons.
The Al-Quds Brigades, the military arm of the Islamic Jihad Movement, said in a message threatening Israel: “We have not started yet,” while the Israeli army said on Tuesday that it had directed more strikes on the Gaza Strip, following rockets fell on Israel.
The Palestinian News Agency reported that Israeli warplanes bombed, with at least five missiles, a site northwest of Gaza City, which led to its destruction, setting it on fire and causing severe damage to nearby homes.
It was reported that a cease-fire agreement was reached between Israel and the Palestinian armed factions in the Gaza Strip as a result of Egyptian and Qatari mediation and UN officials, according to Archyde.com news agency.
Armed operations erupted following the announcement of the death of the Palestinian detainee, Khader Adnan, following 87 days of hunger strike, in Israeli prisons.
The death of Khader Adnan sparked widespread anger among Palestinians. The Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, Muhammad Shtayyeh, accused Israel of deliberately assassinating Khader by refusing his request for his release, neglecting him medically, and keeping him in his cell, despite the seriousness of his health condition, as he described it.
Adnan is considered one of the most prominent Palestinian prisoners who went on hunger strike, as he went on strike for 25 days in 2004. In 2012, he went on strike that lasted for 66 days.
In 2015 he went on strike for 56 days, in 2018 he went on strike for 58 days, and in 2021 he went on a hunger strike that lasted for 25 days.
Adnan was arrested 12 times, and spent a total of regarding 8 years in prison, most of which were under administrative detention.
According to the independent Palestinian Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, there are regarding 4,900 Palestinians in Israeli prisons, most of whom are serving sentences following being convicted by Israeli courts, are being held for interrogation, have been charged, are awaiting trial, or are on trial.
Addameer says another 1,016 are in “administrative detention,” a controversial measure under which suspects are held indefinitely without charge or trial for renewable six-month periods. The Palestinians consider everyone held by Israel to be political prisoners. Addameer says deporting Palestinians from the occupied West Bank to prisons in Israel is illegal under international law.
After the death of Khader Adnan, the number of Palestinian deaths in Israeli prisons has risen to 236, since 1967, of whom (75) are the result of what the Palestinian factions consider “the crime of willful medical negligence.”
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