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palestinian struggle How Khader Adnan unified his people from his prison cell

Khader Adnan was not a “terrorist” with “Israeli blood on his hands”, as pro-Israeli propagandists have been repeating in the news and on social media.

If the former Palestinian prisoner, who died in his Israeli prison cell following 87 days of an uninterrupted hunger strike, was directly involved in armed resistance, the story would have had a different ending.

Armed Palestinian resistors are either assassinated or detained and tried by Israeli military courts to spend prolonged sentences in Israeli prisons, following brief trials that lack any fairness or due process.

Adnan was a charismatic leader but not a fighter by the strict

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