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After release, Palestinian prisoner ends hunger strike

Palestinian authorities say Israel has provided to launch Allan in November, on the finish of his second six-month interval, however activists have continued to push for instant freedom.

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Around 340 Palestinians are now held in administrative detention, according to Israeli authorities, and detainees have regularly gone on hunger strike to protest.

Mr Allan’s lawyer, Jamil Khatib, said that his client’s condition was serious but stable.

Right-wing lawmakers and ministers reacted furiously to the High Court decision, with some accusing the court of setting a unsafe precedent that would lead to the release of other security prisoners being held in Israel.

Allan regained consciousness on Monday and is said to have suffered brain damage as a result of his strike.

Under the order, Allan can ask to be moved to another hospital, but it left open the question of what would happen if or when his health improves and he is able to stop medical treatment.

“We took him off the respirator”.

Instead of ending the practice of administrative detention, which is illegal under worldwide law, the Israeli Parliament last month approved a bill that would allow authorities to force-feed huger strikers.

Israel said the detention was applied to Allan for his affiliation with Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian militant group that has carried out scores of attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers. Allan has denied any wrongdoing and demanded that he be released or charged.

Allan finally ended his hunger strike yesterday after beginning it on June 18 to protest his detainment without trial by Israel.

Aside from putting Allan’s life in danger, the measure violates due process.

U.N political affairs chief Jeffery Feltman has informed the Security Council that “a chronic lack of adequate law enforcement” is fueling escalation between Israeli settlers and Palestinians as he warned that a new flare-up of hostilities can not be minimized. Critics of force-feeding, however, see it as not only a means of torture, but also an unethical violation of the subject’s autonomy.

But his thickly bearded face has just lately turn out to be one thing of a brand new symbol of Palestinian resistance, together with his photograph posted on social networks and branded on posters supporting his trigger, not to point out being revealed by newspapers and tv stations.

Hunger-striking prisoner Mohammad Allan on Thursday woke up from a medically induced coma and is now in a critical condition in the ICU at Barzilai Medical Center, IMEMC reported.

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The UN has criticized Israel’s decision to imprison stone-throwers for up to 20 years, as well as its force-feeding of prisoners on hunger strike.

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