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Khader Adnan, hunger striker in Israel, near death
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news report
 Tuesday February 14, 2012 17:24 by Justin Morahan
Chained to his prison Bed
Protests around the world, including Ireland, but the case of this dying hunger striker in Israel has escaped notice in our media As Khader Adnan entered his 59th day on hunger strike, his wife Randa has appealed to us, the international community, to end his isolation and save his life. As he lies dying, his Israeli captors have chained him to his military prison hospital bed.
“My husband is dying inside an Israeli jail. The world should make sure I am able to see him,” Randa said. “And it should pressure the Israeli government to release him before it’s too late.”
According to Joe Catron of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), Khader, a 33-year-old baker, a graduate economics student of Birzeit University, and Islamic Jihad Movement activist, was detained, without charge, in a 3:30 am raid on his home in Arraba, Jenin on December 17.
He began a hunger strike the same day to protest Israel’s administrative detention policy and the brutality of his captors, and to demand his own freedom and the freedom of thousands of other prisoners held in Israeli jails who are being deprived of their simplest human rights
"Israeli interrogators" says Catron, "responded by continuing the beatings that began during his arrest, tying him into painful positions for hours, ripping hair from his beard, smearing dirt onto his face, throwing him into a “punishment cell” with bright lights and loud noises intended to prevent sleep, and denying him treatment for his gastric illness, the disc problems in his back, and the injuries their fellow soldiers had inflicted on him. After they graphically insulted members of his family, including his two young daughters and elderly mother – a form of psychological torture used by Israeli troops to extract information from Palestinian suspects – he launched a speech strike, refusing to talk with them as well", the ISM report continues
His wife and children were allowed to see him only for 15 minutes for the first time last Tuesday but by then he could barely move to greet them.
Physicians for Human Rights have said that he has been transferred to five different hospitals over an eight day period.
A four hour vigil organised by the IPSC was held outside the Israeli Embassy in Dublin yesterday. A solidarity vigil outside Ramleh prison in Israel was met with tear gas assault and sixteen people were injured by rubber bullets.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P6_oI4VoGk&feature=related
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(Tommy Donnelan -protest at Embassy)
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it's pathetic that we have heard nothing about this on the news while we are dosed up with endless nonsense about sporting events and celebrity shite. It's bread and circuses all over again, only now we pay for the bread and there is an admission charge into the circuses. Meanwhile those who stand up to be counted in their countries disappear from sight into dark jails which a compliant media ignore and where justice doesn't exist
Please sign a petition on behalf of Khader Adnan.
One petition site is here:
it has not escaped the media's attention. they are lying
There was a vigil at the Israeli Embassy on Monday between 10 am to 2 pm organised by the IPSC.
Report on IPSC protest at: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/101374
physician's comments
éirígí held vigils in Belfast and Newry last Saturday in support of Adnan. http://www.eirigi.org/latest/latest120212.html
Friends of Palestine Béal Feirste are organising a candlelit vigil outside Belfast City Hall, that's this evening I think.
Several news links including the one below have announced that Khader Adnan has ended his hunger strike (about five hours ago) after Israel announced his release date for April.
Addameer, a Jerusalem-based Prisoner Support and Human Rights organisation, released the following statement late this evening:
Ramallah, 21 February 2012 – Khader Adnan’s hearing at the Israeli High Court was cancelled today, 21 February 2012, only minutes before the hearing was to take place. On Khader’s 66th day of hunger strike in protest of his administrative detention and inhuman and degrading treatment by the Israeli authorities, one of Khader’s lawyers negotiated a deal with the Israeli military prosecutor that Khader will be released on 17 April instead of 8 May and that his administrative detention order will not be renewed. Addameer lawyer Samer Sam’an is actively working to gain permission to visit Khader to confirm whether or not he will continue with his hunger strike.
Khader previously stated to Addameer lawyers that though he was calling for his immediate and unconditional release, the minimum requirements he would consider for ending his hunger strike would be the guarantee that he would not receive a new administrative detention order and that his duration of detention would be considered from the date of his arrest on 17 December 2011 and not from the date that he received his administrative detention order on 8 January 2012.
The provisions of the deal reached today as announced by the lawyer involved do meet these minimum requirements. However, if new “secret material,” upon which administrative detention is based, presents itself during the next two months, there would still be grounds for the renewal of his administrative detention order.
This caveat is consistent with similar deals made in the past, in which Israeli officials leave the door open for re-arrests. Addameer maintains that the fact that Israeli officials negotiated the duration of his detention, in addition to agreeing to an early release, reveals that there were no grounds for his administrative detention in the first place.
His administrative detention order, as is the case with all other administrative detainees, is based on the alleged threat he poses to the “security of the State of Israel.” However, if Israeli officials agree that he will not be a threat on 17 April, as clear from today’s deal, he surely does not pose any threat today and his case provides further proof of Israel’s policy of arbitrary detention. Addameer reiterates its call for his immediate and unconditional release and the release of the 308 other administrative detainees.
Addameer’s main concern remains Khader’s health, in critical condition after over two months of hunger strike. Whether or not Khader continues his hunger strike, he must receive proper arrangements for observing his health condition, which will likely now have irreversible consequences. If he does decide to end his hunger strike, the potential complications from such a protracted hunger strike will require urgent and trusted care, which can only be provided if he is released.
Addameer continues to salute Khader Adnan for his incredible steadfastness in challenging Israel’s policy of holding Palestinians in detention without charge or trial, which is in violation of international law. Addameer further thanks all individuals and institutions who have chosen not to ignore the basic human rights violations being committed against Palestinian prisoners on a daily basis and who have expressed their explicit support for Khader and his fellow prisoners.
The date set for Khader’s release, 17 April, ironically falls on Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, which will serve as a reminder of the thousands of other Palestinian political prisoners who remain in Israeli detention.
www.addameer.org
http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/news-item/israeli-decisi...cient