An Islamic Jihad fighter leads a march in support of Mohamed Allan at the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday.
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“The treatment is being administered according the ethics committee guidelines and includes respiration and intravenous fluids and saline”, a hospital statement said.
Allan’s father also said that his son had been imprisoned in the past, from 2006-2009, for alleged affiliation with the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad. PHR-Israel hopes and believes that the doctors in Barzilai Hospital have acted with respect and in accordance with Allan’s will. The situation we are now facing could have been avoided.
Jamil al-Khatib, Allan’s lawyer, told Ma’an News that the Barzilai Medical Center in Israel has illegally put the detainee under anesthesia, saying that it is necessary for the hospital’s administration to receive the consent of his parents before giving him the anesthetic, adding that there were no sufficient reasons to do so.
The lawyer had previously described Allan’s condition as “very frail” – and suggested that force-feeding could “kill him”.
“With the wave of hunger strikes inside the prisons, they pledged to enact a law allowing the Prison Service to perform this procedure, even if it is in violation of worldwide and UN Law”, he said.
Allaan was arrested in November 2014 and placed under administrative detention for two six-month periods.
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.
Last month, Israel’s parliament passed a law allowing the force-feeding of inmates.
The new law cannot force a doctor to perform any forced feeding or medical examination, Hadar said.
This way, he said, “a Palestinian vehicle can’t get into an Israeli settlement, and Israeli vehicles cannot get into Palestinian settlements”.
In recent years, Palestinian prisoners both individually and in large groups have turned to hunger strike as a means of last resort to secure their most basic rights.
Law enforcement authorities in Israel, the Knesset, and the courts cannot wash their hands of such murderous zealots.
Under interim peace accords, Israel successfully has remaining say in allocating radio frequencies within the West Bank, the place the Palestinian Authority workouts restricted self-rule. Look, they say, Palestinians aren’t the only terrorists posing a threat to the security of the state – now Jews will be receiving similar treatment.
Haaretz reported that “Allan is the first Palestinian hunger striking prisoner whose condition has deteriorated to the point where mechanical ventilation has been required”.
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If the court does decide to release him, it is likely to cause a backlash amongst right-wing Israelis.
