From the Liveblog of
Thursday, February 18, 2016
Radical Islamist cleric Raed Salah released
Radical Islamist cleric Raed Salah, who was 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, is released from police custody.
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.
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.
The Times of Israel Community.