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…

CPI Secretary General Adel Amer, center, and MK Dov Khenin, seated to his left in the picture, during the 17th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties held in Istanbul, (30-31 October to 1 November, 2015)

Communist Parties: Solidarity with Struggle of the Palestinian People

The 17th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties held in Istanbul (30-31 October to 1 November, 2015) focused on the theme of the “tasks of Communist and Workers’ Parties in strengthening the struggle of the working class against capitalist exploitation, imperialist wars and fascism; for workers’ and peoples’ emancipation and for socialism.” The meeting…