Palentinian Prisoner’s Hunger Strike Calls Attention to Israel’s ‘Administrative Detention’

The World

A Palestinian prisoner in Israeli custody has agreed to end his 66 day hunger strike.

And not a moment too soon. After more than two months without food, Khader Adnan was said to be close to death by starvation.

As The World’s Matthew Bell reports from Jerusalem, this has called attention to Israel’s policy of “administrative detention.”

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