The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club warns that prisoner Khader Adnan, held in an Israeli prison, is in danger of death as his hunger strike nears its 50th day.
Adnan has been hunger striking for 49 days. In 2012, he held a hunger strike of more than two months.
The Palestinian Authority’s minister of prisoner affairs, Issa Karaka, says there is a “real concern” Adnan may die. During a press conference in Ramallah, Karaka charges that the Shin Bet security service made a decision to kill Adnan, NRG quotes the Palestinian minister as saying.
While Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan is trying to promote legislation that would make force-feeding prisoners legal, the the bill has so far not been voted into law.
FILE: Protest in support of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan earlier this month (photo credit: Sliman Khader/Flash90)
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