Source : Xinhua
GAZA, March 17 (Xinhua) -- A Palestinian prisoner arrived in the Gaza Strip Sunday for his temporary exile, ending his 260 days of hunger strike in protest of his detention.
The prisoner, Ayman Sharawneh, agreed to suspend his fasting upon a deal with Israel, in which he accepted to spend 10 years away from his West Bank home, a Palestinian official from the Ministry of Prisoners' Affairs said.
Dozens of Palestinians welcomed Sharawneh when he entered from Erez crossing point between Gaza and Israel, before he was taken to the hospital in an ambulance.
Earlier, Ziad Abu Ein, deputy minister of prisoners' affairs, said Sharawneh's decision to accept "expulsion" was personal, adding that he took it after his health deteriorated seriously.
Abu Ein stressed that the Palestinian National Authority (PNA)' s official stance is against expulsion "because it's a dangerous unprecedented tactic that harms the right of prisoners."
Last week, the PNA said it refused an Israeli offer to deport four hunger- striking prisoners.
Sharawneh, a resident of Hebron city in southern the West Bank, was rearrested three months after he was released in a prisoner exchange deal between Israel and Islamic Hamas movement in 2011.
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