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Friday 26 Feb 2016 - 15:35 Makkah mean time-17-5-1437
Palestinian hunger-striker al-Qiq (AFP file image)
Jerusalem (IINA) – Palestinian detainee Mohammed al-Qiq on Friday ended a 94-day hunger strike that has brought him close to death after his lawyers reached a deal with the Israeli occupation authorities that will see him released from administrative detention on May 21.
Ma'an News Agency quoted head of the Palestinian Prisoner's Society Qadura Fares as saying that while Israel had not agreed to al-Qiq's immediate release, a "compromise" was reached.
According to the deal, Israel's six-month administrative detention sentence against al-Qiq will not be renewed after his release on May 21, he said.
The date will mark exactly six months since al-Qiq was detained from his home in Ramallah on 21 November 2015.
"The military order will be the last one," Fares said, adding that al-Qiq would also be allowed visits from his family, including his wife, two children and father.
Although they did not agree to move the hunger-striker to a hospital in the occupied Palestinian territory, the Israeli authorities agreed to transfer him to any hospital in Israel, he said.
Fares added that al-Qiq was now accepting medical treatment and was allowing doctors at Afula's Emek Medical Center, where he has been held for most of his hunger strike, to examine him.
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