Allan was arrested in November 2014, Khatib said, on suspicion of conducting military activities with the Islamic Jihad.
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The 31-year-old lawyer is now on a respirator and is receiving fluids.
Allan was moved to Barzilai hospital from another hospital in southern Israel earlier this week and doctors at both hospitals have so far honored his wish not to be treated.
“He is determined to continue his hunger strike”, despite the risk to his life, Naser Allan said of his son.
The lawyer had previously described Allan’s condition as “very frail” – and suggested that force-feeding could “kill him“.
Israel has said it fears that the Allan’s death could trigger more unrest between Israelis and Palestinians in a period already marred by violence.
“Unlike a criminal proceeding, administrative detention is not intended to punish the detainee for an offense that has been committed, but to prevent a future offense”, the Israeli human rights group B’tselem, which has frequently criticized the practice, said, in an earlier statement.
Some Palestinian administrative detainees, whom Israel has held without trial or pressing charges, have used hunger strike protests to try to effect their release.
Thirty-three-year-old Mohammed Allan’s case now looks set to be a litmus test for Israeli doctors after the country’s top medical institution called on healthcare providers to refuse to carry out the forcible administration of food branding it “unethical” and “bordering on torture”.
Israeli forces have attacked Palestinian demonstrators who were marching in solidarity with Mohammed Allan, an activist who recently fell into a coma following a two-month hunger strike in an Israeli jail, PressTV reported.
The Hebron team was reportedly allowed entry to besieged Gaza as part of a deal for the Palestinian Football Association to withdraw its proposal last May for the suspension of Israel from FIFA over alleged violations of worldwide law.
According to VICE News, he wrote on Facebook, “I am not willing to see the streets of Israel filled with hundred of wretched terrorists that went on hunger strike and were released”.
“Force-feeding means premeditated execution of the prisoner”, he said.
Al-Khuffash told Anadolu Agency: “During the eighties, Israel implemented force-feeding on a group of Palestinian prisoners who had been on hunger strike – three were martyred in the process”.
A Palestinian man was shot dead on Monday by Israeli police troopers after he stabbed and lightly wounded one of them at a military checkpoint in the occupied West Bank, a police spokeswoman said. “Allan remains in an unstable and critical condition”. He said the hospital is providing Allan with liquids administered intravenously but not force-feeding him.
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Allan’s strike has reached the point where his body may shut down at any time.
