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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, February 16, 2016.
Israeli troops injuries a Palestinian civilian and kidnap others during invasions targeting West Bank communities. These stories, and more, coming up, stay tuned.
The Israeli Supreme Court reject on Tuesday a demand made by lawyers of Hunger-striking Palestinian detainee Mohamed Al Qeeq to be freed and moved to a Palestinian hospital in the West Bank.
Al-Qeeq, a 33-year-old Palestinian journalist and father of two, began his hunger strike in November, in protest of his administrative detention by Israel – imprisonment without trial or charge which can be renewed ever six months. On Tuesday Al Qeeq entered his 48 day without food.
Issa Qaraqe, head of the Palestinian Commission of Political Detainees and ex-Detainees told local media that the Israeli court decision is depilate attempt to kill Al Qeeq.
Al Qeeq is refusing to end his hunger strike until he is totally freed from Israeli military detention and send back to his family.
In the meantime, in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, Israeli soldiers shot Ahmad Bilal Zeitoun, 24, with a live round in his left leg, after several Israeli military vehicles invaded the city, stormed and ransacked many homes.
Elsewhere, in occupied Jerusalem, the soldiers stopped a young man, in Bab al-‘Amoud area, and kidnapped him allegedly for carrying a knife.
The police claimed it “foiled a planned attack,” and that the Palestinian, in his twenties, is from the Jenin district. He was moved to an interrogation center in the city.
In related news, Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday at dawn and Monday late night, 17 Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, including one in occupied Jerusalem, in numerous invasions of communities and violent searches of homes.
Home searches and kidnappings were reported in the southern West Bank cities of Bethlehem and Hebron, in addition to Qalqilia and Jenin, in northern West Bank as well as neighborhoods of East Jerusalem.
And that’s all for today from the IMEMC News; this was the Tuesday, February 16, 2016, news round-up from the Occupied Palestinian Territories. From more news and updates, please visit our website at www.imemc.org Today’s report has been brought to you by George Rishmawi and me Ghassan Bannoura.
