Israel Re-arrests Muhammad al-Qiq, Former Hunger Striker

Muhammed Al Qeeq was held by Israel in administrative detention. (Photo: Via Al Jazeera, file)

The Israeli authorities rearrested former Palestinian hunger striker Muhammad al-Qiq after he took part in a protest which called for the release of Palestinian bodies held by the Israeli army in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Sunday.

Palestinian news outlet al-Quds Network quotes al-Qiq’s wife Fayhaa Shalash as saying that he immediately declared a hunger strike in protest of his detention.

Al-Quds reported that al-Qiq was detained at the Israeli military checkpoint of Beit El in the Ramallah district — along with relatives of slain Palestinians Muhannad Shafiq Halabi, Thaer Abu Ghazaleh, and Hussein Muhammad Abu Ghush — after the group was returning from Sunday’s protest.

Their vehicle was searched and the others were interrogated before Israeli authorities ultimately released them an hour later, while al-Qiq was taken to a detention center inside the illegal Israeli Beit El settlement.

An Israeli army spokesperson said they were looking into reports on the detention of al-Qiq.

The 34-year-old journalist, who lives in Ramallah and is originally from Dura in the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron, was released from Israeli prison on May 19, 2016, after a grueling 94-day hunger strike that brought him near death.

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1 Comment

  1. Thank God this brave fighter for justice and freedom for Palestinians from their cruel invading occupation forces, is still alive and ‘Qiking’.
    His heart-wrenching story of resistance brings support from around the world and behind it, utter contempt and disgust for the Zionist criminals.

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