A Palestinian security prisoner in Israeli administrative detention for 14 months is due to end his 140-day hunger strike after Israel elected to release him, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad-affiliated Filastin Al-Youm television channel stated on Tuesday.

According to a report by Kan, which cited the channel, Hisham Abu Hawash will be released at the end of February.

Hawash, a resident of the West Bank village of Dura near Hebron, has been under arrest since October 2020, and has been hospitalized in the Assad Harofeh Medical Center in Be’er Yaakov.

“According to the defense establishment, he is affiliated with Palestinian Islamic Jihad,” the report said.... Read More: JNS