Tag: Maher al Akhras

Jerusalem: Israeli authorities on Thursday released Palestinian prisoner Maher al-Akhras, who had been on a hunger strike for 103 days. "The occupation authorities have released Maher al-Akhras, and preparations are underway to transfer him from the Israeli Hospital to the Hospital in Nablus, in the northern West Bank," Qadri Abu Bakr, head of the Prisoners Affairs Authority of the Palestine Liberation Organization, told Anadolu Agency. Al-Akhras, 49, from the West Bank city of Jenin, began the hunger strike after he was detained under a draconian Israeli policy which allows...