Who are the Palestinian players at play?
The Israel-Palestine issue is an age-old one. The Palestinians originated as Arab-speaking Muslims under the former Ottoman Empire. They are also considered to have descended from Mamelukes or soldier-slaves of Egyptian Arabs. They are mostly Sunni Muslims and hope to reclaim the Gaza Strip and West Bank regions as their territory. They argue that their people have been residing in the region for centuries and the Israeli Jews can not make them vacate their land. However, their blood-spilling struggle against Israel has so far failed to win the Palestinians a formal territory of their own.
Israeli soldiers arrested Palestinian journalist Alaa al-Rimawi overnight on April 21, 2021 from his home in Al-Bireh. (Photo from Alaa al-Rimawi s Facebook profile)
A Palestinian journalist is on hunger strike to protest his administrative detention by Israel. Alaa al-Rimawi, a reporter for Al-Jazeera Mubasher and director of the local J-Media Network news agency, marked his 17th day on a hunger strike on Friday after being placed under detention for three months.
Al-Rimawi, 43, was arrested overnight on April 21 in his home in Al-Bireh, near Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank. Immediately upon his arrest, al-Rimawi announced his intention to go on a hunger strike. According to a family member, he was transferred to a hospital last week after his condition deteriorated, after which he was returned to Ofer Military Prison, where he was reportedly placed in solitary confinement.
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