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<h1 class="reader-title">Khader Adnan prevails after 58-day
hunger strike</h1>
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<span class="field field-author"><a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/people/tamara-nassar">Tamara
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content="2018-11-19T23:29:27+00:00">19 November 2018</span></span>
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<p><a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/khader-adnan">Khader
Adnan</a> was released from prison on 13 November
after refusing food for 58 days in protest of his
administrative detention.</p>
<p>This was the West Bank resident’s third long-term
hunger strike since 2012 to resist his repeated
imprisonment without charge or trial by Israeli
occupation authorities.</p>
<p>Adnan refused to take supplements or undergo medical
examinations during his strike, and even stopped
drinking water during the last day. Israeli
authorities have transferred Adnan several times in an
attempt to isolate and humiliate him, prisoners
advocates say.</p>
<p>His health <a
href="https://www.facebook.com/ppsmo/posts/1974373289294027">deteriorated</a>
sharply during his protest.</p>
<p>This video shows Adnan reuniting with his children
upon his release:</p>
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<p>"إرفعوا شارة النصر والسبابة"... لحظة لقاء
الشيخ خضر عدنان بأطفاله عقب الافراج عنه من
سجون الاحتلال</p>
<p>تصوير: معتصم سقف الحيط <a
href="https://t.co/6u9IXaHFdO">pic.twitter.com/6u9IXaHFdO</a></p>
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— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) <a
href="https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1062480335563149313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November
13, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<p>“Adnan, 40, has become a symbol of the steadfastness
and resistance of imprisoned Palestinians following
his multiple hunger strikes,” prisoners rights group <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/samidoun">Samidoun</a>
<a
href="https://samidoun.net/2018/10/khader-adnan-steadfastness-prevails-again/">stated</a>.</p>
<p>“He has received widespread international solidarity
with the strikes, which have drawn attention to the
collective struggle of all Palestinian prisoners.”</p>
<p>Adnan is from the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.
He previously undertook two prolonged hunger strikes:
<a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/deal-reached-end-khader-adnans-detention-17-april-66-day-hunger-strike-ends">66
days in 2012</a> and <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/khader-adnan-ends-hunger-strike-after-israel-agrees-free-him">55
days in 2015</a>.</p>
<p>His most recent <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/israel-arrests-community-leaders-attempt-quell-protests-over-jerusalem">arrest</a>
was on 11 December, after which he was indefinitely
imprisoned without charge or trial for almost a year.</p>
<p>At the beginning of September, Adnan launched a
hunger strike that lasted until the end of October to
protest his administrative detention.</p>
<p>Administrative detention orders are typically issued
for six-month periods, but can be renewed
indefinitely. Under such orders, detainees are held
without charge or trial and unable to see evidence
against them.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Appeals against AD are
allowed, but the lawyers have no information on
which to base their arguments. The file stays
secret. <a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BornaPrisoner?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BornaPrisoner</a>
<a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StopAD?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StopAD</a>
<a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PalestinianPrisonersDay?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PalestinianPrisonersDay</a>
<a href="https://t.co/20ILqUasIJ">pic.twitter.com/20ILqUasIJ</a></p>
— Addameer –الضمير (@Addameer) <a
href="https://twitter.com/Addameer/status/985783242199625728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April
16, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<p>This Israeli practice is a direct continuation of
British colonial rule and constitutes a war crime, <a
href="https://twitter.com/Addameer/status/985781894636867584">according</a>
to prisoners rights group <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/addameer">Addameer</a>.</p>
<p>It is primarily used against Palestinians, with <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/arrests-deadly-firebombing-palestinian-home/15043">few
exceptions</a>.</p>
<p>Adnan terminated his strike when the Israeli army
agreed to try him on 29 October, after postponing his
trial 17 times.</p>
<p>Israel accuses Adnan of being a member of Islamic
Jihad, a Palestinian political and resistance
organization. Israel considers virtually all
Palestinian parties to be “terrorist” organizations.</p>
<p>He was tried and sentenced to one year including time
served, which left a few days for him to remain in
prison before his release.</p>
<p>Israel subjects Palestinians from the West Bank to
trial in a military court, while Israeli settlers are
subject to civilian courts.</p>
<p>Israel’s military courts lack basic due process and
have a near-100 percent conviction rate for
Palestinians.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Palestinian prisoner <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/rizk-rajoub">Rizk
Rajoub</a> <a
href="https://www.qudsn.co/article/163367">terminated</a>
his hunger strike on Sunday after reaching an
agreement with Israeli occupation authorities to limit
his administrative detention to four months.</p>
<p>Israel subjected Rajoub, 61, to solitary confinement
during his strike, which lasted more than three weeks.</p>
<p>Rajoub waged a hunger strike last December, when the
Israeli military court made him <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/why-wont-israel-treat-imprisoned-woman-severe-burns">choose</a>
between administrative detention and exile in Sudan.</p>
<p>Rajoub has spent approximately 20 years in Israeli
prisons, 10 of them in detention without charge or
trial. He is from the occupied West Bank village of
Dura.</p>
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