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Israel court denies release of Palestinian hunger striker

Dalal Awawdeh holds a poster of her husband Khalil Awawdeh who is on a 170-day hunger strike at an Israeli hospital [Nasser Nasser/AP]

Israel’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal to release a Palestinian detainee on a hunger strike for several months to protest his detention without charge.

Khalil Awawdeh, 40, is protesting being jailed without charge or trial under what Israel refers to as “administrative detention”. His family says he has been on a hunger strike for 170 days, subsisting only on water.

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