Ihab Salim-independent journalist-Sandviken-Sweden:

According to informed sources in the Greek island of Cyprus, said that the Palestinian "Khatab AL-ali" attempted suicide on Sunday morning in the prison of Paphos, according to sources.

The sources said that AL-Ali, who went on hunger strike inside the prison three days ago because of lack of follow-up case, he is taken to a hospital in the town of Paphos in southwest Cyprus, according to sources.

The sources said that AL-Ali was arrested with two other Palestinians " Hani AL-Hamadi and Naseer Dhib" by the Cypriot police in the first of the month of March this year in front of one of the hotels of Cyprus where they live with their families displaced from the Iraqi capital of Baghdad after U.S. and British invasion of the country and the targeting of Palestinians by armed groups backed by Iran.

The sources added that the Cypriot court has issued a ruling to release him of the charges attributed to him earlier, but he was not released yet, according to sources.

It is worth mentioning that Al-Alis family back to village of Ijzim ( Colony of Kerem Mehral)
south of Haifa, and they have a Palestinian Authority passport containing three zeros, gift from the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat to the Palestinian refugees after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 because Tel Aviv refused the application of Resolution No. 194 (The right of return
) issued by the United Nations in 1948.