United nation official urges to resolve issue of palestinian journalist held in Israeli jail

A UN official stressed the necessity to resolve the issue of Palestinian captive journalist in the Israeli occupation jails, Mohammed Al-Qeiq, who has been on hunger strike for 92 days.

The remarks were made by Christian Cardon, head of Mission at the International Committee of the Red Cross in Al-Quds and the West Bank during his visit to the detained journalist in the hospital.

Al-Qeiq, a correspondent for al-Majd news channel in the West Bank, was arrested by Israeli occupation forces during a raid on his home in the town of Abu-Qash, north of Ramallah, on November 21, 2015, and was held under administrative detention for 6 months.

Al-Qeiq started an open hunger strike on November 25 in protest at being administratively detained and at the harsh treatment in prison; where he is subjected to torture and threatened of being held captive for long periods in prison.

Since Al-Qeiq started his hunger strike, a lot of solidarity events were organized at the local, regional and international levels, while the Israeli occupation has shown no response towards such events.

Source: MENA