Khader Adnan after his release from prison
Israel detains freed Palestinian hunger-striker
Islamic Jihad leader Khader Adnan held for questioning over his travel to Jerusalem without entry permit.
The Israel Police detained a Palestinian militant leader on Monday for questioning over his travel to Jerusalem, a police spokeswoman said, a day after he was freed from prison in a deal ending an almost two-month-long hunger strike.
Khader Adnan of the Islamic Jihad faction was taken into custody near al-Aqsa mosque in the Old City in East Jerusalem.
A police spokeswoman said he lacked an Israeli entry permit.
"He has been detained, not arrested," she said. "Whether he will be formally arrested or released will be decided when his questioning is completed."
Khader Adnan after his release from prison
On Sunday, Adnan was released from an Israeli prison after staging a 56-day hunger strike in protest at being held without trial under so-called administrative detention, a method Israel says it employs as a security measure to prevent violence.
Israel arrested Adnan, 37, last July for the 10th time. Both sides had feared that his death from starvation would hurt a shaky Gaza truce or spur further violence.
Adnan is a known Islamic Jihad figure in the West Bank, territory that Israel captured in the 1967 Six-Day War and which Palestinians seek for a future independent state. Like Islamist Hamas, Islamic Jihad opposes peace deals between the Palestinians and Israel and advocates the destruction of Israel.
