![]() ![]() ![]() Palestinian prisoners have for years gone on lengthy hunger strikes to protest their detentions and to seek concessions from Israel. Palestinians called for a general strike in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and protests were expected later in the day. Shortly after his death was announced, Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired a volley of rockets into southern Israel. His death raises the potential for renewed violence between Israel and Palestinian militant groups as violence surges in the West Bank. Khader Adnan, a leader in the Islamic Jihad militant group, is the first Palestinian prisoner to die since Palestinian inmates began staging protracted hunger strikes about a decade ago. ![]() JERUSALEM (AP) - A high-profile Palestinian prisoner died in Israeli custody on Tuesday after a nearly three-month hunger strike, Israel's prison service announced, at a time of already soaring tensions between Israel and the Palestinians. Adnan died in Israeli custody early Tuesday. Palestinian Khader Adnan, an Islamic Jihad spokesman who went on a 66-day hunger strike while he was imprisoned in an Israeli jail. ![]()
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