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Sunday 07 Feb 2016 - 16:24 Makkah mean time-28-4-1437
Palestinian hunger-striker al-Qiq (Image from Internet)
Ramallah (IINA) – Palestinian journalist Muhammad al-Qiq has been on hunger strike in Afula Hospital for the 75th consecutive day on Saturday after he rejected Israel's offer to release him on May 1, demanding his immediate release and cancellation of his administrative detention.
Hiba Masalha, an attorney for the Palestinian Authority’s Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, visited al-Qiq on Friday evening in the hospital where he is being kept under an Israeli court order.
She said that al-Qiq is in a “struggle against death”, confirming Israeli doctors’ statements that the Palestinian hunger-striker could die at any minute.
“There has been a severe deterioration in the health condition of the detained journalist Muhammad al-Qiq,” Masalha told Quds News Network on Saturday.
Masalha said that al-Qiq’s condition has become severe following his rejection of the Israeli high court’s decision to “freeze” his administrative detention order. She described the decision to “freeze al-Qiq detention as a deception", adding that al-Qiq’s demand “is an end to his detention, not a freezing which means that he can be rearrested at any time.”
Earlier on Saturday, Al-Quds TV reported that al-Qiq’s family had denied that any deal had been reached with the Israeli authorities.
UN officials and human rights organizations have repeatedly called on Israel to charge or release al-Qiq, who is one of more than 660 Palestinians held in administrative detention.
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