The Israeli High Court decided on Friday to hold a hearing next Sunday to determine the health status of the captive journalist Mohammed al-Qiq who has been on hunger strike for the twelfth day in a row protesting his administrative detention.
Fayha Shalash al-Qiq’s wife told al-Quds Press news agency that the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) is still insistent on preventing al-Qiq from meeting his lawyer or family and refuses to disclose his health status.
She said that lawyer Khaled Zabarqa filed an urgent request to the Israeli High Court to reveal the health condition of al-Qiq amid an Israeli intransigence and the IPS’s refusal to allow him visits.
Shalash affirmed that the Israeli court will hold a hearing next Sunday to determine her husband’s health condition as well as his legal status.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) re-arrested al-Qiq on 15th January 2017 after detaining him along with relatives of Palestinian martyrs who had attended a protest in Bethlehem city and imposed administrative detention on him.
Al-Qiq went previously on a hunger strike in November 2015 that lasted for 94 days and was ended on 19th May 2016 after he clinched a deal stipulating his release.
In a related development Palestinian activists organized two protests on Friday in solidarity with the Jerusalemite prisoners Jamal Abu al-Lil and Raed Muteir on the second day of their hunger strike.
According to al-Quds Press Palestinian activists staged a protest in front of the central court in occupied Jerusalem and another one at the entrance of Qalandia refugee camp north of the city where they raised portraits of the two prisoners and demanded their immediate release.
The IOF arrested Muteir and Abu al-Lil on 14th and 15th February 2016 respectively. The Israeli occupation authorities imposed 6-month administrative detentions on them three times.
Prisoner Jamal Abu al-Lil is a former member of the Fatah Revolutionary Council while Raed Muteir is the head of Qalandia Youth Center and both of them are residents of Qalandia refugee camp who were arrested several times before.
