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<p>A 33-year-old West Bank baker who has become a symbol of Palestinian resistance to Israeli detention policies entered the 63rd day of a hunger strike Saturday despite a doctor&#8217;s warning that he could die any time.</p>
<p>&#8220;Mr. Khader Adnan is in immediate danger of death,&#8221; according to a report issued this week by the Israeli branch of the nonprofit Physicians for Human Rights, which sent a doctor to examine him.<br />
Adnan&#8217;s two-month protest is the longest hunger strike in Palestinian history and is a high-stakes gamble that increased scrutiny on Israel&#8217;s arrest and detention policies of Palestinians.</p>
<p>Adnan is accused of being the spokesman of the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad, an Iranian-backed organization responsible for killings scores of people in Israel in suicide bombings and rocket attacks.</p>
<p>Adnan was arrested by Israeli security forces December 17, 2011, at his home near the West Bank city of Jenin. He began a hunger strike after accusing interrogators of subjecting him to humiliation and verbal abuse, said Adnan&#8217;s wife, Randa.</p>
<p>The rights group has petitioned the Israeli court to release Adnan, saying that after 50 days of undergoing a hunger strike, the body&#8217;s major muscles and vital organs suffer decomposition. More than 70 days &#8220;does not permit survival,&#8221; the group said.<br />
The Israeli military will not say what evidence it has against Adnan and has refused to release details about his arrest, saying only he is being held on an &#8220;administrative warrant for activities that threaten regional security.&#8221;</p>
<p>To date, no charges have been filed, Adnan&#8217;s attorney said.<br />
Adnan is being held in administrative detention, a controversial Israeli practice that allows authorities to detain people indefinitely. There is no requirement to charge detainees held under this practice.</p>
<p>At the end of 2011, Israel had 307 Palestinians under administrative detention, according to B&#8217;Tselem, an Israeli human rights group. That was a 40% increase in the number of detentions from a year earlier, the group said.</p>
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