An-Najah News - According to the Minister of Health Mai al-Kaileh 536 new cases of coronavirus were confirmed, 156 recoveries and two deaths in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, registered during the past 24 hours.

Two deaths were a 68-year-old woman from the town of Beit Jala and an 88-year-old man from the town of Halhul Al-Kaileh added.

She said 29 coronavirus patients are currently under intensified care, of whom 7 are on respirators.

An-Najah News - The Detainees and Ex-Detainees Commission said that Musa Zahran, 53, a Palestinian administrative detainee in Israeli prisons, ended today his hunger strike which lasted for 15 days in protest of his detention without a charge or trial.

Zahran’s decision to end his hunger strike came after he reached an agreement with the Israel Prison Service on not renewing his current six-month administrative detention order, without charge or trial according to Hasan Abd Rabbu, the media adviser of the Detainees Affairs Commission.

Rights groups say that Israel‘s administrative detention policy has been used as an attempt to disrupt influential Palestinian figures, notably politicians, activists, and journalists.