Quds (IP)- Sheikh Khader Adnan, one of the leaders and senior members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement (PIJ), was martyred in the prison of the Israeli regime after 86 days of hunger strike.

Iran PressMiddle East: The material court of the Israeli regime had repeatedly opposed the release of Adnan, 44, on bail for his health treatment. According to the Palestinian Prisoner's Society (PPS), with the martyrdom of Khader Adnan, the number of resistance martyrs in the prisons of Israel reached 237 people.

Dr Mustafa Barghouti the secretary general and co-founder of the Palestinian National Initiative (PNI), said that the occupying, fascist, and criminal regime of Israel is responsible for the assassination of the brave fighter Sheikh Khader Adnan. The Secretary General of PNI emphasized that the Israeli regime will pay for committing the grave crime of martyring Sheikh Khader Adnan and other crimes of administrative detention of Palestinians.

In response to the martyrdom of Sheikh Khader Adnan, the WAED Palestinian Association in support of the prisoners announced that the occupation regime of Israel has committed too many crimes and must wait for dark days inside and outside the prison. "Khader Adnan has been executed in cold blood," WAED announced.

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Adnan has already been arrested 13 times by the Israeli military before his most recent arrest on February 5 over the past 20 years and spent a total of eight years behind bars. During several of those arrests, he has already become the veteran of four separate hunger strikes that won him his freedom from administrative detention.

He has been on hunger strike five times in prison of the Israeli regime, the first time in 2004 for 25 days, the second in 2012 for 67 days, the third in 2014 for 54 days, the fourth in 2021 for 25 days, and Finally in 2023 it has been for 86 days.

Israel’s widely condemned practice of administrative detention allows the detention of Palestinians without charge or trial for renewable intervals ranging between three and six months based on undisclosed evidence that even a detainee’s lawyer is barred from viewing.

The US State Department has said in past reports on human rights conditions for Palestinians that administrative detainees are not given the “opportunity to refute allegations or address the evidentiary material presented against them in court.”

Amnesty International has described Israel’s use of administrative detention as a “bankrupt tactic” and has long called on Israel to bring its use to an end.

Palestinian detainees have continuously resorted to open-ended hunger strikes as a way to protest their illegal administrative detention and to demand an end to this policy, which violates international law. 

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