"約旦河西岸的巴勒斯坦人結束絕食"

未經指控而遭以色列當局監禁的巴勒斯坦人卡德爾阿德南，終於在以色列同意四月前將他釋放後，結束了66天的絕食。他被認為和極端份子伊斯蘭聖戰組織有關聯，並被可追溯到以色列委任英國管轄時代的法律所拘留。以色列多年來援引這項法律，已經拘留了數千名巴勒斯坦人。隨著阿德南的健康日漸衰弱，抗議在整個約旦河西岸和加沙地帶爆發，在拘留中心的囚犯也開始模仿絕食的舉動。

當他瀕臨死亡時，阿德南吸引了媒體的關注。將他釋放的協議解除了對以色列日漸加深的拘留法律審查壓力。這也明顯解救了分裂成約旦河西岸較世俗的法塔赫派系以及加薩走廊的伊斯蘭組織哈馬斯的巴勒斯坦領導階層的相對無效性。

正當阿德南在監獄中衰亡之際，大眾的憤怒轉向不只是以色列還有兩個巴勒斯坦難民營，其成員全神貫注爭奪臭名昭彰的巴勒斯坦當局的領導地位。

觀察員將阿德南的絕食比喻為愛爾蘭共和軍的鮑比山德，他在1981年死於英國監獄，一共絕食了66天。

(Politics)Palestinian from the West Bank Ends a Hunger Strike

Khadar Adnan, a Palestinian imprisoned by Israeli authorities without charges, ended a 66-day hunger strike after Israel agreed to release him by April. He is linked to the extremists, Islamic Jihad, and detained under a law dating back to the era of the British mandate of Israel. Israel has invoked this law over the years to hold thousands of Palestinians. As Adnans health waned, protests erupted across the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and inmates in detention centers started copycat hunger strikes.

As he neared death Adnan attracted media attention. The deal to release him relieves mounting pressure on Israel to review its detention laws. It also brings into stark relief the relative inefficiency of the Palestinian leadership, divided between the more secular Fatah faction in the West Bank and the Islamist group Hamas in Gaza.

While Adnan withered away in jail, popular outrage turned against not only Israel but also the two Palestinian camps, whose members were preoccupied with jostling for leadership of the widely discredited Palestinian Authority.

Observers likened Adnans fast to that of Irish Republican, Bobby Sands, who died in a British prison in 1981 on the 66th day of a hunger strike.

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