The Palestinian Prisoners Society issued a statement considering the Israeli Supreme Court decision to suspend Allaan’s administrative detention a way to circumvent his strike and evade releasing him.
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Hezi Levy, Allan’s physician at Barzilai Medical Center, said late Wednesday that Allan’s condition was again worsening and that he was placed in a medically induced coma.
“This means that for now, owing to the hunger striker’s medical condition, the administrative detention order is no longer operative”.
“The result will be that tomorrow all 300 administrative detainees will hold a hunger strike and be rewarded”, he said.
Supreme Court decides to temporarily halt administrative detention of Mohammed Allaan, who refused food for 65 days.
Allaan’s case spurred Israeli lawmakers to pass a law last month legalizing the force-feeding of prisoners.
State prosecutors on Wednesday offered to refrain from extending Allaan’s detention past his November release date if he ended the hunger strike immediately, his lawyers said.
“We agreed on the fact that on the ground in recent weeks and days there is a deterioration, there is an escalation in terror activities”, he told reporters at the Ramallah headquarters of Abbas’s Palestinian Authority.
His resistance and the support he has won are a profound embarrassment for both the Israeli and the Palestinian authorities, who fear that his death could spark wide scale unrest in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, and a mass hunger strike in Israeli jails.
Doctors have since been intravenously giving him water, vitamins and salts and he was connected to a respirator. It remains unclear whether the damage is reversible.
In his current state, a patient like Allan “cannot declare what he would want at this specific point”, and that all treatment up to now had been in keeping with Israel’s medical ethics and patient’s rights policies, Birmanns said.
The high-profile case took a dramatic turn earlier Wednesday after the court ordered medical tests to determine the level of Allan’s brain damage and said he would be freed if it was irreversible. His family will be able to visit him under guidelines of the hospital’s regulations and within visiting hours.
In return for an end to the strike, Israel has vowed not to renew his six-month detention period when it expires on November 3.
His lawyers argue his condition negates the claim of Israeli authorities that he poses a security risk.
The measure has also been used against Jewish extremists, though far more rarely.
Israel’s security cabinet on August 2 extended to its own citizens so-called “administrative detention”, a practice commonly applied to Palestinian militant suspects and condemned internationally.
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Israel set new terms on Wednesday that might hasten the release of a Palestinian who is on a 65-day-old hunger strike against his detention without trial.
