Palestinians and Israelis are also watching the fate of a Palestinian prisoner who has been on a hunger strike in protest of his detention without charge.
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Allan is refusing medication but is accepting vital fluids and supplements until Israel’s Supreme Court rules on his case Wednesday.
The Islamic Jihad describes Allaan as a member of the Islamist movement, as does Israel, which has used administrative detention to hold Palestinians it deems to be security risks while not divulging what the authorities view as sensitive intelligence.
Israel on Tuesday offered to free Allan if he accepts to leave his West Bank hometown of Einabus and go abroad for a period of four years.
The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) announced on Sunday it intends to prosecute Israel at the international Criminal Court for killing Palestinians without trial.
A spokeswoman for Barzilai said Allan’s condition remained “stable”. “This led him to ask our mother, who is staying in the hospital yard, to go back home in order to be with family when she hears the news of his martyrdom”.
The Israeli Prison Service declared a state of alert following the announcement of Allan’s condition, reported Ma’an news agency, the largest independent TV, radio and online media group in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Israel’s medical association has ordered doctors not to abide by a new law that could enable them to force-feed a hunger-striker.
Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan, writing on Twitter, called the petition for his release “ludicrous”, as Allan’s medical endangerment was self-inflicted.
Israeli security forces shot dead a Palestinian who tried to stab a border police officer in the West Bank on Monday, authorities said, in the fourth such incident in a week.
Hunger strikes are a common tactic among Palestinian prisoners in Israel, who have won early release or better conditions via prolonged fasting. This comes after his lawyer, Kamal Natur, sent an appeal to the court on August 15, saying that his client should be immediately released from administrative detention, where he has been held without charge since November 2014.
Odai Allawi, a longtime friend and colleague, said he knew Allan at Arab American University in the West Bank city of Jenin, where he was a known political activist and elected to represent Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the university’s student union. The soldier was treated at the scene and the Palestinian was taken to hospital with a light shoulder wound, the army said.
Adding to the tension is the fate of a Palestinian detainee on hunger strike for more than 60 days.
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Jamil al-Khatib, one of Allan’s lawyers, said no force-feeding had occurred or was expected to occur, because Israel’s doctors have largely rejected the idea as unethical.
