Khader Adnan, a senior leader of the Palestinian resistance movement Islamic Jihad, breathed his last in an Israeli jail in the wee hours of Tuesday morning after nearly three months of hunger strike.

Palestinians observe a general strike in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in commemoration of Khader Adnan, who embraced martyrdom in an Israeli prison after an 87-day hunger strike.

More than 2,000 Palestinian prisoners suspend their open hunger strike after Israel yields to their demands.

Palestinian prisoners have started a hunger strike in all Israeli prisons in protest of the martyrdom of Abu Ali due to deliberate medical negligence.

Khalil Awawdeh is reportedly in a critical condition over 150 days into his hunger strike.

Nearly 500 inmates have been refusing to show up for their military court hearings since the beginning of the year.

Families of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and prisoners’ rights activists held a sit-in outside the office of the International Committee of the Red Cross.