Nahoum Oltchik, a member of the Israeli-Palestinian NGO Combatants for Peace, told Anadolu Agency that law professor Frank Romano, who is being held at a police center, launched the hunger strike demanding that Israel\u2019s Supreme Court revoke its decision to approve the planned demolition of the Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar in occupied East Jerusalem and allow local people to build houses.<\/p>\n
Oltchik said Romano, author of the book Love and Terror in the Middle East, has dual French-American citizenship and came to Palestine to support people in Khan al-Ahmar.<\/p>\n
Romano is determined to continue the hunger strike, Oltchik added.<\/p>\n
On Friday, the Israeli army arrested three Palestinians along with Romano during the protest.<\/p>\n
According to an Anadolu Agency correspondent, Israeli troops assaulted dozens of activists and local residents near Khan al-Ahmar.<\/p>\n
Last week, Israel\u2019s Supreme Court ruled to demolish Khan al-Ahmar and evict its Bedouin inhabitants.<\/p>\n
Israel hopes to expel 10,000 Bedouin residents of the E1 Zone, which sits on 15 square kilometers of land in East Jerusalem, to make way for a series of Jewish-only housing units linking Jerusalem to the Maale Adumim settlement.<\/p>\n
If implemented, the plan would effectively cut the West Bank in two, preempting the possibility of a territorially contiguous Palestinian state based on pre-1967 borders.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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