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Palestinian hunger striker remanded in Israel custody for 24th time

Wednesday 25-July-2018

An Israeli military court remanded on Wednesday until August 8 and for the 24th time Khader Adnan from the town of Arrabeh in the northern occupied West Bank province of Jenin.

Adnan was brought to the court from the Rimon desert jail in an exhaustive three day-trip during which he had been chained hand and foot.

Adnan 40 a leading member of the Islamic Jihad is married with six children.

He was detained 11 times in his lifetime and spent over eight years in administrative detention.

Adnan had spent 66 days on hunger strike in Israeli prisons which made him the first to start this struggle against administrative detention with neither charge nor trial.

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