Al-Jazeera correspondent confirmed that the Palestinian prisoner Khalil Awawda suspended his hunger strike, which he started 172 days ago, as his lawyer managed to sign a pledge to release him on the second of next October, according to his family.
Awawda, 40, went on a hunger strike for 172 days in protest of his administrative detention without any charges being brought against him. He refused to suspend the strike about two weeks ago when the commander of the central region in the occupation army froze his detention and insisted on extracting a decision to release him.
Yesterday, the Israeli Supreme Court rejected a petition to intervene to release him, despite the submission of a medical report confirming that he was at risk of sudden death.
Awawda is from the town of Idna in the Hebron governorate in the southern occupied West Bank. He has been detained since December 27 under a 6-month administrative detention order.
On August 7, Awawda's name was mentioned in the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip that ended 3 days of fighting between Israel and Islamic Jihad.
At the time, Islamic Jihad spokesman Daoud Shehab said that the agreement with Israel on a ceasefire was brokered by Egypt, after Cairo promised to work for the release of the two prisoners, Khalil Awawda, and the movement's leader, Bassam Al-Saadi.