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…