‘Frail’ Palestinian hunger striker sent to prison from hospital

A Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike for 12 weeks was moved from an Israeli hospital back to prison on Friday, the prisons service said, despite international concern for his health. Maher al-Akhras, 49, was arrested in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in July, and has since been detained without charge. He is being held in what is known as administrative detention, a policy that Israel uses to hold suspected militants without charge for…