Early on Sunday morning, jubilant supporters gathered to give a hero’s welcome to an Islamic Jihad activist freed from an Israeli jail after nearly two months on hunger strike.<br /><br /> Khader Adnan refused food for 56 days to protest at being held for a year without trial under so-called administrative detention, a security measure Israel says it employs to prevent violence.<br /><br /> “The occupier made a mistake in imprisoning me the first time and the second time and all the other times,” he told reporters.<br /><br /> “And today they have made a mistake freeing me unusually early in the day, thinking that this would stifle Palestinian joy. It is a cowardly act by the occupier who is afraid of the joy and love that Palestinians have for their prisoners.”<br /><br /> Israel releases Palestinian detainee who went on hunger strike http://t.co/qIroqvX3mR pic.twitter.com/w5lBxwTy45— Haaretz.com (@haaretzcom) 12 Juillet 2015<br /><br /> A known Islamic Jihad figure in the West Bank, Adnan, 37, was warmly received back home in Jenin.
