Atef Douglas - Nablus

Randa Moussa, the wife of the captive Sheikh Khader Adnan, has never been complacent. Unlike her children who did so against their will, they went to their bedrooms before midnight, after reassuring that they would be reunited with their captive father to go to his place of trial.

On his 59th day, Sheikh Khader, 49, ends his open hunger strike to reject his "arbitrary" detention, denying his membership in a banned organization and planning acts against the occupation.

The director of the legal unit at the Prisoner Club, Jawad Boulos, had just announced that the Salem Military Court had sentenced Sheikh Khedr Adnan to one year in prison from the date of his arrest less than a year ago. He was fined about $ 300 and 18 months with a suspended sentence five years.

Shaker has been on hunger strike for 58 days, and yesterday he decided to stop drinking water to protest against his continued detention. The military prosecution has demanded his imprisonment for two years.

The father of Sheikh Khader Adnan went to the court to solidarity with him and called for his immediate release (Al Jazeera Net)

In the early hours of the day, Randa hurried to wake her children and fill their rooms with the remains of their toys and clothes in preparation for their departure to the Salem court in the northern West Bank town of Jenin, while the ten years went to her school to follow her monthly tests.

Expect the worst
In the middle of a state of anxiety and fear, the wife of Sheikh Khadr left with her children in her hometown of Arrabeh, south of Jenin, on her way to the court, reassuring her husband first of all, especially that "bad" news in her language last night speaks of the martyr's death because of his deteriorating health. .

The shaykh, who announced Sunday that he had stopped drinking water, also sent a message to his wife and his lawyer that his health was deteriorating and that he was "suffering from chest pains, stammering and losing weight less than half and vomiting blood."

Despite Khadr's earlier strikes, this is "the most serious" as his wife describes him. She says he comes after a series of strikes estimated at about a year during his 10 arrests, the longest in 2012 when the sheikh for sixty-six days refused his administrative detention. He was described as the "gut battle bomber" The strikes of his fellow prisoners.

Like his wife, he worried about the case of Sheikh Khader, his eight-year-old father, Muhammad Musa, who went to the court to see his son and reassure him. He also announced his 57th day of fasting in support of his captive son.

Solidarity with Sheikh Khader Adnan and prisoners in the city of Nablus a few days ago (Al Jazeera Net)

He added that "Khadr's strike came a year after his arrest to reject the arrogance of the occupation from the moment of his arrest and assault and we have before our eyes and the wail of his movements from one prison to another, and presented him to the court via the bus (bus) Prison) without being tried or released "as if the goal of his absence and retaliation through arrest."

The efforts of Sheikh Khader's family to support his strike are in the midst of a "marked decline" in public and official solidarity with him, especially with regard to the issue of prisoners in general.

Solidarity retreat
The family responds to the failure of solidarity "under the pressure of the Palestinian Authority and its arbitrary measures against the solidarity activists." The attacks were carried out by the Sheikh himself because of his solidarity with the prisoners and their families before his last arrest. He was subjected to "moral assassination".

Sheikh Khadr's strike reflects the suffering of some 6,000 prisoners in prison. The violence has escalated against the female prisoners and their recent practices against the occupation of cameras to monitor them inside the prison yard.

Amani Farahna, a spokeswoman for the Palestinian Prisoners' Club, said that the support of the prisoners had already been seen as a "retreat" from various quarters, and that this was due to the reality of the Palestinian national movement.

Fuad al-Khafsh, a researcher on prisoner affairs, also referred to the "slow pace" of solidarity with Sheikh Khader and the Palestinian prisoners "to collude" with the official authorities and the undeclared position of Sheikh Khader, who was previously arrested to prevent him from attending festivals and official arrests.

But this did not prevent his heroic strike and stand alone against the arrogance of the Israeli jailer and keeping the issue of the prisoners alive and interactive in the Palestinian street. He said that the entire Palestinian scene is witnessing a failure such as settlement, Jerusalem and other national issues, not just the prisoners.