News Briefs
  • 2:43

    Court rules hunger striking terrorist must stay in Israel

    Israel's Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that a Palestinian Arab hunger striker who has fasted over 80 days must stay in the northern Israeli hospital where he is being held, after a compromise bid failed.

    "The court refused the request of Mohammed al-Qiq and will leave him in the hospital in Afula," his lawyer Jawad Boulos said in a statement quoted by AFP.

    Read more