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Islamic Jihad member to be released from prison

A Palestinian member of the Islamic terror group Islamic Jihad agreed to end his 66-day hunger strike to protest his imprisonment after reaching a deal with Israel that will free him in April, the Israeli Justice Ministry said Tuesday.

22 February 2012 - Last updated 11:36AM
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Photo: Khader Adnan, 33, is a member of the Islamic Jihad terror group that killed scores of Israelis in suicide bombings

The announcement came less than an hour before a scheduled Supreme Court hearing on his petition demanding that he be charged or released.

Khader Adnan, 33, began the hunger strike on December 18, the day after he was arrested in his home by Israeli army, to protest administrative detentions, in which suspects arrested by army in the West Bank are held without being charged.
 
Ofir Gendelman, the Israeli Prime Minister's spokesman to the Arab media, said that the Supreme Court had not decided to release Adnan and noted that he had not been exonerated.
 
"There is concrete evidence which came from intelligence information that Adnan is an Islamic Jihad terrorist," he said.
 
"If he returns to violence and  terror, he will be arrested again," he added.
 
Islamic Jihad has killed scores of Israelis in suicide bombings and had threatened "painful revenge" on Israel should Adnan die from his hunger strike.
 
Source: EJP
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