Israeli prosecutor appeals against court order to release Khader Adnan

The Israeli public prosecution rejected Thursday evening a court decision to release Palestinian detainee Khader Adnan, family sources said.

The sources pointed out that the Israeli public prosecutor appealed against the court’s decision under the pretext that Adnan had not yet completed his previous sentence.

Earlier Thursday, Salem military court ordered the release of Khader Adnan after spending five months in administrative detention.

Adnan was arrested more than once in Israeli jails where he went on one of the longest hunger strikes in Palestinian history in 2012 to protest his administrative detention before his release on April 17, 2012.

However, Adnan was re-detained in the Jenin village of Arraba on July 8, 2014 as part of Israel’s large-scale arrest campaign in occupied West Bank mid-June.