Jerusalem (EFE) launch of three rockets from Gaza into Israeli territory.
Adnan, 44, who had been accused of terrorism and incitement to violence as a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (YIP) – an organization considered terrorist by Israel, the US and the EU – died at dawn in the Nitzan detention center, confirmed the Israeli Prison Service, which indicated that the prisoner had refused to receive medical care at that facility.
The Ministry of Palestinian Detainees of the ANP (Palestinian National Authority) confirmed to EFE his death as a result of the hunger strike that began on February 5, the same day he was arrested; while the Foreign Ministry held Israel “fully responsible” for the death of Adnan and will take this “crime” before the International Criminal Court given the authorities’ refusal to release him despite the risk of death.
Warning of “imminent death”
The organization Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) warned Monday, when the strike reached 86 days, that Adnan faced “imminent death” and should be “urgently transferred to a hospital for observation.” medical attention”, since he was “dangerously emaciated” and presented “difficulty moving or maintaining a basic conversation.
The Palestinian expressed his desire to be hospitalized and presented three conditions to undergo medical examinations in the prison: allow his family to visit him, be closely accompanied by a PHRI doctor and that his medical information not be shared with Israeli authorities, something that it did not happen; while an Israeli district court recently rejected two requests to require his transfer to a hospital.
Adnan was arrested at dawn on February 5 at his residence in the Palestinian town of Arrabeh, in the Jenin area, one of the most troubled points in the West Bank occupied in the last year and where Islamic Jihad has a notable presence.
fight symbol
Arrested twelve times in the past by Israel, Adnan spent more than eight years in jail and has become a symbol of struggle for the rest of the Palestinian prisoners through the five hunger strikes he held.
An Islamic Jihad spokesman warned last week that Adnan’s death would be considered “a murder” by Israel and “face serious consequences.”
This morning, three rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, reported the Israeli Army, although they fell in unpopulated areas surrounding the coastal enclave. No militia has awarded them for the moment.
Currently, almost 5,000 Palestinians are detained in Israeli jails, of whom more than 1,000 are in administrative detention, meaning without charge or trial.
More than a million Palestinians have been imprisoned since the beginning of the Israeli occupation in 1967, including more than 15,000 women, according to information from the Ministry for Detainees, which ensures that “every Palestinian family witnessed the arrest of at least one of their members”.