Over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners, who had been held without charges by Israeli authorities, were  poised to launch a mass hunger strike beginning on June 18.  But in a statement by The Administrative Detainees’ Committee of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement, the strike has been postponed. Why?

This mass effort comes just weeks after the martyrdom of Sheikh Khader Adnan, a Palestinian man locked up by [neocolonists] without having been charged with a crime. A prominent leader in the Islamic Jihad movement, Adnan resisted his jailers by refusing food and medicine for 86 days before dying on May 2. At 45 years old, the father of nine had already participated in hunger strikes at least four previous times between 2012 and 2021.