Rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israel on Tuesday morning, AFP journalists told AFP shortly after the death of a member of the Palestinian Islamic holy war (jihad) organization, which had gone on a hunger strike for nearly 90 days to protest his detention under guards in an Israeli prison.

The Israeli military said that air defense sirens sounded from a kibbutz near the Gaza Strip, and then reported that a total of three rockets were fired, all of which landed on empty patches of land.

Hunter Adnan, 45, who has been on a hunger strike since early February to protest his imprisonment in Israel, surrendered earlier Tuesday.

The Israel Prisons Authority said in a press release that a Palestinian Islamic Jihad prisoner has died after he was “found unconscious in his cell” and taken to hospital.

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Palestinian Prisoners Association confirmed to AFP the death of Hader Adnan at the age of 45.

The Association of Palestinian Prisoners in the Gaza Strip complained to the Reuters news agency that he was “executed in cold blood” by the Israeli authorities.

Israel “will pay the price for this crime,” said the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, an organization classified as “terrorist” by Israel, the US and the EU.

“The free hero Hader Adnan was martyred for a crime committed by an enemy in front of the whole world who approves, defends and covers up injustice and terrorism,” the Palestinian Islamist group added.

“Resistance will continue with strength and determination,” he added.

According to Israeli authorities, Hader Adnan refused “to undergo medical examinations and treatment.”

According to Kantur Fares, president of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Union, this is the first prisoner to die as a result of a hunger strike. He started this action on 5 February.

Hunter Adnan, from the northern part of the occupied West Bank, was repeatedly imprisoned by the Israeli authorities at least 12 times over a period of about eight years, most of that time under “administrative detention”, and repeatedly went on hunger strikes. . His case has become a symbol for the Palestinians.

On Friday, his wife Rada Musa confirmed that she rejects “any help” and “any medical assistance” from Israel.

“He is in a cell where conditions are very difficult. They (Israel) refused to transfer him to a civilian hospital and allow him to see his lawyer,” she added in her statements to Agence France-Presse.

Source: RES-IPE