Rockford Register Star · Rockford, Illinois · 3 May 2023
CP-2023-028
Palestinian hunger striker dies in custody
Death sets off barrage of rockets from Gaza Strip
Ilan Ben Zion, Associated Press, Jerusalem
Transcribed from the clipping
“JERUSALEM — A high-profile Palestinian prisoner died in Israeli custody on Tuesday after a hunger strike of nearly three months, Israel’s prison service announced… Khader Adnan, a leader of the militant Islamic Jihad group, helped introduce the practice of protracted hunger strikes by individual prisoners as a form of protest against Israel’s mass detention of Palestinians without charge.
On Tuesday, the 45-year-old became the first long-term hunger striker to die in Israeli custody… Around 200 people gathered outside Adnan’s home in the occupied West Bank town of Arraba, holding signs bearing his image and calling for revenge.
Adnan’s widow, Randa Musa, told those gathered outside that ‘we do not want a single drop of bloodshed’ in response to his death.
‘We do not want rockets to be fired, or a following strike on Gaza,’ she told the crowd… As Israeli-Palestinian violence has spiked, the number of administrative detainees has risen to more than 1,000 over the past year, the highest number in two decades.”
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His widow, named, standing outside her own house asking publicly for no rockets. The administrative detention figure — more than a thousand, the highest in twenty years — is a single sentence far down the column.
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"Palestinian hunger striker dies in custody," Rockford Register Star, 3 May 2023, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2023-028. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2023-028
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