Israel’s Justice Ministry says that the authorities will not renew the
detention of Khader Adnan, a Palestinian prisoner who has been on a
hunger strike for 66 days. He is being held in Israel without charge or
trial. Under the deal, Adnan will be released on April 17. Doctors
previously said Adnan was at immediate risk of death. We speak to three
guests about his case: his sister, Maali Mousa; Bill Van Esveld,
researcher at Human Rights Watch; and Danny Morrison, a friend of the
late Irish republican activist Bobby Sands, who died on his 66th day of a
hunger strike in 1981. "[Adnan] told us that, 'I am going on this
hunger strike until I have an honorable deal or getting out from this
jail,'" said Mousa about her recent visit to see her brother. "But in
the same time, his spirits were very high." Van Esveld accused Israel of
violating international law by holding a Palestinian from the West Bank
inside Israel. "It’s a violation of Israel’s obligations under the
Geneva Conventions to detain people from the occupied West Bank in
prisons, or hospitals, in this case, that are inside Israel," he said.
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