Maher Al-Akhras, the Palestinian prisoner in Israel, suspended his open hunger strike, which lasted up to 103 days, on Friday evening, according to Palestinian human rights sources.
The Palestinian Prisoners' Club (a non-governmental organization) said in a statement that Al-Akhras had suspended his strike after an agreement with the occupation stipulates his release on the 26th of this month.
According to the statement, the occupation is committed to releasing the prisoner and not renewing his administrative detention order, provided that he spends the remaining period until his release, receiving treatment in the hospital.
And Anadolu Agency learned - from sources in the prisoner's club - that the agreement was made with the Israeli intelligence, and that Al-Akhras will spend some of the remaining days in the Israeli Kaplan Hospital, which he is currently staying in, not excluding his transfer to another hospital to complete the remaining period.
Later, Al-Akhras was transferred to administrative detention (without charge or trial) for 4 months, during which the occupation courts refused to release him despite his deteriorating health condition.
Despite international and human rights appeals, and the deterioration of Al-Akhras's health, Tel Aviv refused to immediately release him and transfer him to complete his treatment in West Bank hospitals, as he demanded, until the agreement was reached.
Al-Akhras, 49, from the town of Silat al-Dhaher in Jenin (northern West Bank), had begun his strike since his arrest on July 27, 2020, to refuse his arrest.
For its part, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) said that al-Akhras provided the clearest example of the Palestinian’s ability to impose his will on the “arrogant” occupier and the occupier’s inability to defeat him even in conditions of arrest and imprisonment.
In a statement to Anadolu Agency, Hazem Qassem, the movement’s spokesman, said that this "great" struggle presented by Al-Akhras "is an extension of the continuous struggle that our people are waging to wrest their right" to freedom and return.
He pointed out that the al-Akhras strike is a new evidence of “the criminality of the Zionist occupier and prisoner,” and its violation of all international laws and norms, especially what is known as administrative detention.