The High Court has ruled that a hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner cannot be moved to a hospital in Ramallah, but may be transferred to one in a Palestinian neighborhood of East Jerusalem, Haaretz reports.
Journalist Mohammed al-Qiq has refused food for nearly three months to protest his incarceration without charge under administrative detention, and along the way become a cause celebre, with near daily rallies in support of him.
He is currently being held in Israel’s Haemek hospital near the city of Afula in the Lower Galilee.
Qiq’s lawyer had requested an okay to move him to Ramallah, closer to his home, but Justice Elyakim Rubinstein said he could only be moved to the al-Maqsid hospital in neighboring East Jerusalem, which is under Israeli control.
The government opposes moving Qiq at all, according to the report.
Qiq’s lawyer plans on meeting with him on Tuesday and making a final decision on whether to move him.
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