Allan has suffered brain damage after 65 days without food and his condition might be irreversible.
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The suspension means that Allan’s friends and family will be able to visit him in hospital as his status changes from prisoner to patient.
He had refused to take anything but water during his strike, insisting on either freedom or death.
Still, the Israeli supreme court – after considering the new medical evidence – issued a stop-gap ruling on Wednesday night, temporarily suspending his detention without charge, and ruling he could apply again for release if and when his condition improves. Last month, it took the rare step of placing three young Israeli ultranationalists in administrative detention as part of a crackdown on Jewish extremism following an arson attack in the West Bank that killed a Palestinian toddler and his father.
The letter noted that such use violates the Forth Geneva Convention and Article 9 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Is it classified because there are no charges?
His U-turn in accepting the demands by the country’s creditors led to outrage among hardliners in his Syriza party, with dozens voting against him during the bailout’s ratification in parliament last week, which was approved thanks to support from opposition parties. At the time of his arrest, Allan was a known activist and leader in the student wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group at his university in the West Bank. And if there is any evidence, it was being kept secret.
Around 340 Palestinians at the moment are held in administrative detention, in accordance to Israeli authorities, and detainees have commonly gone on hunger strike to protest.
During his hunger strike, Allan was not force-fed, which entails inserting a feeding tube into his stomach.
He ended by noting the “risk of escalation in Israel and Palestine is palpable”, saying “the past month has witnessed unconscionable crimes of hatred by extremist elements, reprehensible retaliatory violence, provocations at Jerusalem’s holy sites, and a worrying increase in rockets launched from Gaza towards Israel.”
“And for the prisoners (in Israeli jails) it will be some kind [of] rebellion or maybe something like that”.
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.
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.
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Israel’s High Court froze the administrative order for the detention of Allaan on Wednesday evening.
