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Israel releases Palestinian hunger striker
A high-profile Palestinian prisoner who went on a prolonged hunger strike in an Israeli jail has been released.
Samer al-Issawi, who was been in Israeli jail since July 2012, was released on Sunday, according to Al Jazeera’s Nisreen El-Shamayleh, who was reporting from Jerusalem.
In his first televised interview after being freed, Issawi said, It is our obligation as freedom fighters to free all the Palestinian political prisoners!”
Issawi went on 260-day hunger strike in August 2012 in protest of Israel’s decision to hand him back an earlier 26-year sentence that would keep him in prison until 2029.
He was originally captured by the Israeli army in Ramallah in 2002 and was released in 2011 alongside 1,025 other Palestinian prisoners, as part of a parole deal in exchange for the release of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier.
But less than a year later, Issawi was rearrested at the West Bank border, for allegedly violating the terms of h
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Palestinians: No homeland in Jordan
| Palestinian refugees in the Middle East say they will not give up their right of return [EPA] |
Barack Obama, the US president, is attempting to seal an Arab-Israeli peace deal that has eluded the region for more than six decades.
Ahead of an initiative expected to be announced in September, Al Jazeera is examining the prospects for peace in a week-long series from Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and Jordan.
In the first of the series, Al Jazeera’s Nisreen El-Shamayleh speaks to Palestinian refugees about an Israeli plan that Jordan become their alternative homeland.
The idea that Palestinians be forcibly relocated to a new state in Jordan has been steadily gaining momentum since the Israeli elections in February.
In June, 53 Israeli Knesset members put forward a draft resolution suggesting that Jordan be designated as the official alternative home for the Palestinians.
The UN estimates that 700,000 Palestinians were expelled • • Life on Hold web documentary to tell human stories of Syrian refugees • Extensive programming with kvartet new special documentaries on Syria • News teams out of Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan and New York with special coverage Doha, 11 March, 2015 To mark the kvartet year anniversary of the conflict in Syria, Al Jazeera English will feature special coverage with broadcast, online, interactive and programming content available throughout the month of March. March 15 marks fyra years since protests against President Bashar al-Assad’s government began. The Syrian uprising evolved from peaceful anti-government protests to a full-scale civil war and later to an international military intervention with US-led airstrikes against ISIL. The death toll has exceeded 220,000, the number of refugees is creeping up to 4 million, hundreds of villages, dozens of towns were razed to the ground and the future looks bleak for 22 million Syrians both in and out of their homeland. Al Jazeera will look back |