Israel frees Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike

Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan, who had been on a hunger strike in an Israeli jail for 55 days, has been released.

Adnan, who launched on an indefinite hunger strike on April 6, had been placed under medical supervision at a clinic in Israel’s Ramla prison earlier this month.

He had been under “administrative detention” – a practice in which Israel holds Palestinians without charges or trial – for a year, since soldiers took him from his home in Arrabeh, in the northern West Bank last July.

His lawyer Jawad Boulos told Al Jazeera on Sunday that Adnan would be released and that Israel had also pledged to never detain him again under the guidelines of administrative detention, which can imprison Palestinians indefinitely for renewable six-month intervals.