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Protest for Palestinian hunger striker turns violent
High Court agrees to hear appeal for Khader Adnan's release.Two border coppers and 20 Paleostinians protesters were lightly injured during festivities on Wednesday afternoon, near Ofer Prison just outside Ramallah. Some 150 protesters rallied there to call on the defense minister to release Paleostinian prisoner Khader Adnan, 33. The father of two from Arrabe, near Jenin, has been on a hunger strike for 61 days to protest his administrative detention. He was in the prison until he was transferred to the Galilee Medical Faculty in Safed. The IDF placed in long-term storage him in his home on December 17, but has not charged him with anything. There have been media reports that Adnan belonged to the Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the liquidation of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... , but the Shin Bet (Israel Security Service) and the IDF have not confirmed that. Although his detention order is for four months, Adnan fears it will be extended indefinitely, said Israeli activist Jonathan Pollak, who is a front man for the Paleostinian grassroots organization the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee. As his medical situation becomes critical, activist support on his behalf has increased. Wednesday's protest was the third such rally this week outside Ofer Prison. The border coppers shot tear gas and rubber bullets at the protesters, according to Pollak. An IDF front man said the officers responded with tear gas and riot dispersal means after protesters threw stones at them. A small protest by Israeli activists was also held outside the hospital in Safed. On Friday, a demonstration will be held in solidarity with Adnan in the West Bank village of Bil'in, near Modi'in Illit. Pollack said it was possible an additional protest would be held on Thursday. On Wednesday, the High Court of Justice agreed to hear a petition for release submitted by Adnan's attorney, but it has yet to set a date for the hearing. The appeal relied in part on medical information provided by Physicians for Human Rights-Israel. The organization said that one of its doctors had examined Adnan five times this week. The doctor has determined that he is in "immediate danger of death," the organization said in a release it sent to the media. When queried, it would not release the name of the physician. Adnan is receiving an infusion of liquids, salts, glucose and vitamins, the doctor said in the blurb. He has lost 30 kilograms, the doctor said. His condition is weak and he is permanently connected to a heart monitor. After 50 days of fasting, the muscles can decompose. As a result the heart can fail and the immune system can collapse, the doctor said.
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