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About Khader Adnan
- Khader Adnan Mohammad Musa (Arabic: ??? ????? ???? ?????; born on 24 March 1978) is a senior member of the Palestinian Islamist organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and a prisoner in Israel.
- He has been held in prison 10 times under administrative detention, a procedure which allows Israel to detain people for periods of 6 months, each renewable, without the filing of charges or a trial.
- As of June 15, 2015, Israeli authorities had not laid any formal charges against him, but have repeatedly held him for reasons such as "activities that threaten regional security." A visit by an International Committee of the Red Cross delegation was cancelled after Israel insisted their visit be conducted in their presence, with Khader remaining tied to his bed.
- He was released on 18 April 2012 after being on hunger strike for 66 days, and rearrested under the same procedure on July 8, 2014.
- Khader was released in July, 2015.Adnan is widely reported as being a spokesman and leader in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the West Bank.
- His wife says he is not involved in militant activities and is a member of the Palestinian reconciliation committee.
- The PIJ is designated a terrorist group by a number of Western countries and Israel, and Adnan has been convicted in the past by Israel for being a spokesperson for the group.
- Though he has been detained several times since 1999 on the basis of alleged activities in a terrorist organization, Israel has never charged him with involvement in attacks on Israelis.He was arrested on 17 December 2011 after midnight.
- The following day, to protest the conditions of his arrest, Israel's policy of administrative detention and its treatment of Palestinians under Israeli occupation, particularly prisoners, Adnan went on a hunger strike.
- On 21 Feb 2012 a deal was announced between Adnan and the Israeli authorities whereby they confirmed he would be released on April 17, 2012 and he would immediately end his hunger strike, the longest in Palestinian history.He was detained again on July 8, 2014 and given a 6-month detention order.
- His detention was extended in January and May 2015, and on May 5, 2015 he began a second hunger strike.
- The government of Israel is determined to force feed him, and has drafted a law for that purpose, but the Israeli Medical Association has issued instructions to doctors to not cooperate with any force feeding.Adnan owns a bakery and a produce store in his home town of Arraba, near Jenin in the West Bank.
- He has an undergraduate degree in mathematics, and is pursuing a master's degree in economics.
- He is married to Randa Adnan, with whom he had two daughters, Maali and Bissan, prior to his 2011 detention, and Randa gave birth to their third child, Abdel Rahman, and in roughly late 2013, gave birth to triplets.On 11th December 2017 the Israeli army detained Khader Adnan again.
- He resumed an open ended hunger strike on 2nd September 2018.
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