Supreme Court rejects request to move hunger striking prisoner to Ramallah
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The Supreme Court has rejected on Tuesday a hunger striking Palestinian prisoner's request to receive treatment in a Ramallah hospital.
Mohammed Al-Qiq stopped eating 84 days ago to protest his incarceration without trial. He's being treated in a hospital in the Israeli city of Afula. Israel says al-Qeq, 33, is involved in militant activities linked to Hamas.
Al-Qiq refused an Israeli offer to move to a Palestinian hospital in East Jerusalem because Israel could easily detain him again there after being discharged.
Judge Elyakim Rubinstein said in court that Israel aims "to save his life but under no circumstances will we remove him from Israel's borders."
