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Maher al-Akhras, the Palestinian prisoner in Israel, called off his open hunger strike, which lasted up to 103 days, on Friday night, according to Palestinian human rights sources.
The Palestinian Prisoners Club (a non-governmental organization) said in a statement that Al-Akhras had called off his strike after an agreement with the occupation stipulated his release on 26 this month.
According to the statement, the occupation agrees to release the detainee and not renew his administrative detention order, provided that the time remaining until his release passes, receiving treatment at the hospital.
And Anadolu Agency learned – from prisoner club sources – that the deal was made with Israeli intelligence, and that Al-Akhras will spend some of the remaining days in the Israeli Kaplan Hospital, where he is currently staying, without excluding you to transfer you later to another hospital to complete the remaining period.
Al-Akhras was later transferred to administrative detention (without charge or trial) for 4 months, during which the occupation courts refused to release him despite his deteriorating health.
Despite international and human rights appeals, and Al-Akhras’ deteriorating health, Tel Aviv refused to immediately release him and transfer him to complete his treatment in West Bank hospitals, as demanded, until he arrived. an agreement.
Al-Akhras, 49, from the city of Silat al-Dhaher in Jenin (northern West Bank), had started his strike since his arrest on July 27, 2020 to reject his arrest.
For its part, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) said al-Akhras was the clearest example of the Palestinian’s ability to impose his will on the “arrogant” occupier and the occupier’s inability to defeat him, even under conditions of arrest and detention. imprisonment.
In a statement to Anadolu Agency, Hazem Qasim, the spokesman for the movement, said that this “great” struggle presented by Al-Akhras “is an extension of the continuing struggle that our people are waging to seize their right” to freedom and upon return.
He noted that the Al-Akhras strike is new evidence of “the criminality of the Zionist occupier and prisoner” and his violation of all international laws and norms, especially what is known as administrative detention.
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