Israel was holding Mr Allan, an Islamic Jihad affiliate, under so-called administrative detention, a practice which Palestinians and rights groups oppose.
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Allan’s case has drawn considerable media attention and sparked demonstrations both in Israel and the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Before Wednesday’s court session got under way, Allaan’s lawyers said that in return for an end to the strike, Israel had pledged not to renew his six-month detention period, meaning he would go free on November 3.
Allan went on a hunger strike to protest the policy of administrative detention, which allows authorities to hold suspects for months without charge.
Allan often paid court fees for defendants who could not afford them, Hussein said.
Doctors say Mr Allan is in a serious condition in hospital in Ashkelon.
The proceedings were being held in secret in order to discuss his medical condition and security files, but Israeli media reported that the court ruled Allaan could be released if he had suffered irreversible brain damage.
“During the day, his condition was further deteriorated and he was gradually losing coherent communication with his surroundings, ” he said, adding that Allan was “confused”.
A Palestinian hunger striker has been released from prison so he can receive medical care after starving himself for 65 days.
Allaan will remain at Barzilai Medical Center for treatment, but without the shackles mandated under his detention order.
But Allan’s refusal to eat has put a spotlight on Israel’s new force-feeding law. Results of the MRI were unclear.
Palestinian detainee Mohammed Allan ended his 65-day hunger strike against his detention without trial on Wednesday after the Israeli Supreme Court suspended his arrest warrant, his lawyer said.
From January 1 to August 18, Israel demolished 331 Palestinian structures in Area C (not including East Jerusalem) and 457 people, including 263 children, lost the roofs over their heads, according to data from the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and B’Tselem.
Earlier on Wednesday, in solidarity with Allan, French activists and members of the pro-Palestinian organization Euro-Palestine took part in a protest staged outside Foreign Office in France’s capital Paris.
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Erdan was a primary champion of the force-feeding bill passed by Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, in July, and referred to the hunger strike tactic as “a new type of suicide terror attack“. And the Israeli Medical Association has called force-feeding “equivalent to torture”, urging Israeli doctors not to comply. The Israeli authorities routinely invoke this procedure against the Palestinians they deem a threat to Israel’s security as a means of enforcing indefinite detention without charging or even citing any evidence against them.
