On Wednesday, Palestinian political prisoner Sultan Khallouf, 40, suspended a hunger strike he started 49 days ago, protesting being held under Administrative Detention orders without charges after a ruling for his release was made.
Khallouf, from Burqin town west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, ended his strike after an Israeli court ruled that his current Administrative Detention order will not be renewed when it ends on December 2, upon which date he would be released.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said Khallouf started the strike immediately after the soldiers abducted him on August 3 before he was slapped with an Administrative Detention order for four months.
In 2019, Khallouf he a hunger strike for 67 days, also protesting an Administrative Detention order, and only ended the strike after an agreement for his release was reached.
Currently, one Palestinian Administrative Detainee, Kayed Al-Fasfous, 34, from Doura town, southwest of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, is ongoing with a strike he started 49 days ago.
Al-Fasfous was abducted on May 2 from his home and has since been held under an arbitrary Administrative Detention order, and on Wednesday, September 20, an Israeli military court denied an appeal to void the order.
