Palestinian Journalist Hospitalized after 36-Day-Long Hunger-Strike

January 2nd, 2016

Awake Goy

nsnbc : The Israeli Prison Service has transferred Palestinian journalist Mohammas Al-Qeeg to Al-Afoola hospital. The jailed journalist’s health deteriorated after a more than 36-day-long, open-ended hunger-strike.

Al-Qeeg was detained by Israeli authorities on November 21, 2015 when his home in the Palestinian interim capital Ramallah was stormed. After four days protesting his arrest, Al-Qeeg began an open-ended hunger-strike, protesting what he described as his illegal detention.

Mohammed Al-Qeeg is working as correspondent for the television channel Al-Majad. The director of the channel’s office, Salma Marouf, commented on Al-Qeeg’s arrest, saying that the Israeli occupation forces turn a cold shoulder to all international laws. Marouf also called on the UN Security Council to implement its resolutions pertaining the protection of journalists.

Mohammed Al-Qeeg’s wife told the press that the prison services moved her husband from the Al-Ramleh clinic to the Al-Aloofa hospital, citing the deterioration of his health after more than a month on hunger-strike. She added that her husband’s lawyer had visited Mohammed Al-Qeeg at the Al-Ramleh clinic prior to the transfer.

The lawyer noted that Al-Qeeg showed signs of extreme fatigue and poor health. The journalist’s wife appealed to the Red Cross and other humanitarian organizations to take action and to visit her husband to check on his condition.

Israeli authorities have frequently arrested, detained, even shot at and injured or killed Palestinian journalists, as well as stormed and raided media offices. Palestinian journalists do, however, not only suffer from oppression by the Israeli occupation. In 2014 the Palestinian MADA reported that about 80% of Palestinian journalists are self-censoring.

In late December the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) protested the Al-Fatah led Palestinian Authority’s (PA) violent crackdown on protesters and journalists and the PA’s security cooperation with Israeli military and police.

F/AK – nsnbc 02.01.2016

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