It wasn't suicide

Eddie Cohen - the Israeli journalist - is trying to ward off the responsibility of killing Sheikh Khader Adnan from the ruling authorities in his country, by describing his heartbreaking death as suicide, while some skeptics among our people picked up on this accusation and repeated it, perhaps to ward off the accusation of inaction.

What is known about Adnan is his speech full of hope, courage, altruism, sacrifice, and his bearing of responsibility towards the families of prisoners and martyrs. These qualities contradict risk factors and warning signs for people with suicidal tendencies. Whoever meets Adnan once, respects him for life. It left a great positive impact on myself, on the "Beyond the Fronts" team, and on the viewers of the film, whose theme revolves around the resistance and steadfastness of the Palestinians. His presence in the film was on the occasion of the article I wrote, "Man does not live by bread alone," as his interview was in the hospital, where he was recovering after wresting his freedom from prison thanks to his hunger strike in 2015.

Those who are not aware of the levels of psychological oppression and subjugation attempts to which the Palestinian prisoner is subjected, especially the administrative prisoner who does not know a reason or an end to his captivity, do not understand the option of hunger strike as a form of resistance and a final attempt to wrestle the jailer. Some may consider this option a form of psychological extremism or an attempt to commit suicide. The hunger strike has been used as a tool of resistance in many historical movements and events, the most famous of which is its use by the Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi, who carried out several hunger strikes to express his objection to the policies of the British occupation in India, and it has also been used in recent years as a tool to demand political rights and freedoms in some countries.

Adnan is well versed in the issue of hunger strikes. I once heard him talk about the reasons that prompted him to go on strike, and how to prepare himself for the strike. He also explained how the strike constitutes a tool of pressure on Israel, embarrasses it, and exposes its arbitrariness and tyranny to the world.

Dr. Lina Qassem, the head of the "Physicians for Human Rights" in the occupied Palestinian territory, who supervised Adnan's case, stated that he refused to break the strike, but agreed to be resuscitated if he lost consciousness, because he was not concerned with death, but with freedom, which is his main demand. He also insisted that pressure be taken to transfer him to a civilian hospital, which confirms that any talk of committing suicide is pure slander. Suicide is the killing of a person with intention and intent, but Adnan's intent is liberation. On the other hand, Adnan's doctor explained that we must pay attention to the hypothesis of force-feeding as one of the reasons that led to his death, especially since he explained to her on the 80th day of the strike that the doctors and jailers in the Ramla prison clinic had talked to him more than once about the option of force-feeding, which contradicts Completely with the Malta Declaration approved by the International Federation of Doctors in 1991, as it clearly defines instructions for dealing with hunger strikes, as it indicated that force-feeding is unacceptable and absolutely unacceptable from a moral point of view.

The Israeli judiciary, which procrastinated and procrastinated in his case, and the Prison Authority, which did not put him in the hospital so that he could be saved when his health was delayed, and the absence of the unanimous national backer to support him. Everyone who asks: Did Adnan commit suicide? The answer is: It was not suicide, rather he was deliberately killed, and we consider him a martyr with God, and we do not commend anyone before God. Khader Adnan will remain a shining star that lights up the darkness of occupied Palestine, like Sherine Abu Aqleh and other free Palestinians.