Palestinian prisoner ends hunger strike in deal with Israel

JERUSALEM — A Palestinian captive who has been connected hunger onslaught for implicit 140 days to protestation being imprisoned without complaint agreed Tuesday to extremity his accelerated aft reaching a woody with Israel to beryllium released adjacent month, his lawyer said.

Hisham Abu Hawash, a 40-year-old begetter of 5 and a subordinate of the Islamic Jihad militant group, is the latest of respective Palestinians to spell connected hunger onslaught to protestation being held nether “administrative detention,” a arguable measurement Israel says is needed for security.

His lawyer, Jawad Boulos, said helium agreed to extremity the hunger onslaught aft Israel pledged to merchandise him connected Feb. 26. There was nary contiguous remark from Israeli officials.

Palestinians person protested crossed the occupied West Bank and Gaza successful enactment of Abu Hawash and Islamic Jihad had threatened subject enactment against Israel if helium died successful custody.

The 2.5 cardinal Palestinians surviving successful the occupied West Bank are taxable to Israeli subject courts, portion Jewish settlers surviving successful the territory are citizens taxable to Israel’s civilian justness system. Israel captured the West Bank successful the 1967 Mideast warfare and the Palestinians privation it to signifier the main portion of their aboriginal state.

Under administrative detention, which is lone seldom utilized against Jews, suspects tin beryllium held for months oregon years without being charged oregon seeing the grounds against them. Israel considers Islamic Jihad, which has killed scores of Israelis, to beryllium a violent group.

Israel says the measurement is needed to foil attacks and to detain unsafe militants without revealing delicate quality sources. Israeli and planetary rights groups accidental the signifier denies individuals the close to owed process.