Israel to release Palestinian hunger striker

A Palestinian held without charges by Israel for the past year is ending a 55-day hunger strike and in exchange will be released in two weeks, his wife and an advocacy group for prisoners said.

Meanwhile, in the West Bank, a Palestinian woman stabbed a female Israeli paramilitary police officer in the neck and seriously injured her, police said.

Rights groups have warned that Khader Adnan, 36, a senior activist in the militant Islamic Jihad group, is near death. His wife Randa said, after visiting her husband in an Israeli hospital, that he lost a lot of weight and “looked like a small child”. She said he was unable to hold their 15-month-old son.