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03-05-2023
RAMALLAH: Twenty-six-year-old Shurouq Khalil at a protest in Ramallah says she is demonstrating in solidarity with Adnan’s family and other Palestinian prisoners.
“We have stood here in the past to tell him we are with you, to raise his voice and make it heard. And we are here today,” she told media.
“If the situation stays like this, and tomorrow if others go on hunger strike, the [Israeli] occupation will feel as though it’s normal for Palestinians … to die while on hunger strike. We have to move before anyone else.”
Palestinians staged a general strike in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday following the death of a prisoner in an Israeli jail.
Khader Adnan died inside the prison on Tuesday after an 86-day hunger strike in protest of his detention without trial or charge.
The Israel Prison Service (IPS) said Adnan was found unconscious and was taken to hospital but attempts to resuscitate him failed.
According to an Anadolu reporter, public and private institutions, shops and markets across the West Bank closed as part of the strike.
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh accused Israel of assassinating Adnan, a leader of the Islamic Jihad group.
“The (Israeli) occupation, its prison administration, and judiciary have implemented a deliberate assassination 
against Sheikh Adnan by refusing to release him and neglecting him medically by keeping him inside prison despite his serious health condition,” Shtayyeh said.
According to the Palestinian Prisoner Society NGO, an Israeli military court last month rejected a request by Adnan’s lawyer to release him on bail.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry called for an investigation by a UN inquiry commission into the circumstances of Adnan’s death.
Adnan, 44, was repeatedly detained by Israeli forces and had staged several hunger strikes to protest his detention.
In 2012, Adnan staged a 66-day hunger strike in protest of his detention, forcing the Israeli authorities to release him. He staged similar hunger strikes in 2015 and 2018.
A journalist Samir Abu Shammala reporting from Jenin says discussions were underway with Israeli authorities to find out if Adnan’s body will be handed over to his family for burial.
“However, the consultations so far have not yielded any results.” (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
