Radical Islamist cleric Raed Salah is detained by police at the Haemek hospital in the Israeli town of Afula in the Lower Galilee after he arrived at the site to show support for administrative detainee Mohammed al-Qiq, who has been on hunger strike for the past 86 days.
Salah leads the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement, which the Israeli cabinet banned in November as an organization with terrorist links. The group rejects the Oslo peace accords between Israel and the Palestinians and boycotts national elections on the grounds that they legitimize the Jewish state.
Arab Israeli Islamist leader Sheikh Raed Salah takes part in a large anti-government demonstration in Sakhnin, October 13, 2015 [AFP/JACK GUEZ]According to Channel 10, Salah is detained for disturbing the peace.
Al-Qiq, who is striking to protest his detention in Israel, on Tuesday rejected a compromise that would have seen him transferred to a hospital in East Jerusalem, saying he will only end his fast if he is sent to a Palestinian medical facility.
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Add ToI as a Preferred Source on Google![Arab Israeli Islamist leader Sheikh Raed Salah takes part in a large anti-government demonstration in Sakhnin, October 13, 2015 [AFP/JACK GUEZ]](https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2015/10/000_Nic6496365-e1445346787956.jpg "Arab Israeli Islamist leader Sheikh Raed Salah takes part in a large anti-government demonstration in Sakhnin, October 13, 2015 [AFP/JACK GUEZ]")
