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…