A member of Israel’s Border Police assaults journalists and medics assembled near Al Bireh, West Bank, October 30, 2015.

43 Journalists Covering OPT Jailed by Israel since October 2015

The Committee to Support Palestinian Journalists announced on Saturday, April 16, that Israel has detained 43 journalists in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) since October 2015, including two foreign reporters. The New York based committee said in a report that journalists have reported torture, medical negligence, and unreasonable and illegal rulings by the Israeli authorities…

Mohammad Barakeh with Hadash MKs Aida Touma-Sliman and Yousef Jabareen (in center) together with supporters in front the Afula police headquarters on Thursday, February 18

Mohammed Barakeh Detained after Visiting Palestinian Hunger Striker

Former Hadash MK and leading Communist activist, Mohammed Barakeh, and Sheikh Ra’ad Salah were arrested on Thursday, February 18, after visiting the hunger-striking Palestinian journalist, Mohammed al-Qiq, currently hospitalized in the Haemek Hospital in Afula in northern Israel. Barakeh and Salah recently announced that they and 20 other activists are joining Qiq’s hunger strike in…

Muhammad al-Qiq in Afula hospital on February 10, 2016

Supreme Court Rejects Palestinian Hunger-Striker’s Request to Be Transferred to Palestinian Hospital

Israel’s Supreme Court turned down a petition on Tuesday, February 16, submitted by Palestinian hunger-striker Mohammed al-Qiq requesting that he be transferred from Haemek Hospital in Afula, Israel to a hospital in Ramallah in the West Bank. Al-Qiq, a journalist, has been on a hunger strike for 84 days to protest his administrative detention without…