Summary
The Palestine National Football Team member from Rafah refugee camp whose hunger strike continued after the May 2012 agreement ended the main strikes, and whose case Falk uses to make the “politics of invisibility” concrete (Palestine: The Legitimacy of Hope, PDF p.128-129, p.134).
Details
- As Falk gives him: twenty-five years old, a resident of the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza, a member of the Palestine National Football Team when arrested in July 2009 on his way to a match in the West Bank (PDF p.128).
- He was arrested under the Incarceration of Unlawful Combatants Law, which Falk says offers a detained person even less protection than administrative detention, a law aimed at Palestinians living in Gaza (PDF p.128).
- His strike: without food for seventy days at May 28, 2012, the strike never ended when the main strikes were settled (PDF p.128); by June 12, 2012 he is given as ninety days without food (PDF p.134).
- His brother Imad Sarsak: “My family never would have imagined that Mahmoud would have been imprisoned by Israel. Why, really why?” (PDF p.128)
- Goalkeeper Omar Abu Rwayyes, quoted in the same post: “If you degrade the national team you degrade the idea that there could ever be a nation.” (PDF p.128)
Related pages
Palestine: The Legitimacy of Hope, Administrative Detention, Hunger Strikes, Gaza