“Medical ethics requires that his doctors act in accordance to their understanding of the patient’s will”, it said.
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Doctors have not known how serious Allan’s situation has been lately because he refused to be examined.
Allan was placed on life support devices on Friday morning by doctors in Barzilai medical center in the south of present-day Israel, where he has been shackled to a hospital bed and under guard since Monday.
Their petition, which was also sent to the attorney general and the IDF chief prosecutor, claims that the new developments in his condition justify his immediate release. Earlier this week, 200 Palestinian protesters reportedly clashed with Israeli right-wingers, who staged a counter-protest near the Barzilai hospital.
Mohammed Allan, a Palestinian prisoner on a hunger strike, has slipped into a coma, according to his lawyer.
Mohammed Allan, 30, was arrested in November 2014 and detained for two six-month periods under a measure called administrative detention.
“The field execution that the Israeli forces are practicing against the Palestinian youths is an implementation of the Israeli government’s policy based on instructions of incitement”, said the statement.
The law, passed narrowly in July, allows a judge to sanction force-feeding or medical treatment if an inmate’s life is threatened, even if the prisoner refuses. But officials at the hospital where he was being treated said there had been no talk of carrying out the controversial procedure.
Palestinians in Israeli prisons regularly go on hunger strike in protest at conditions, particularly those who, like Allan, are held in what Israel calls administrative detention. What they really mean to say is: Israel is an egalitarian democracy, which violates human rights in an equal manner.
The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) announced on Sunday it intends to prosecute Israel at the global Criminal Court for killing Palestinians without trial.
Israel has long been concerned that hunger strikes by Palestinians in its jails could end in deaths and trigger waves of protests in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Many Palestinians reportedly received treatment by local medics after inhaling tear gas during Saturday’s rally.
Al-Khuffash told Anadolu Agency: “During the eighties, Israel implemented force-feeding on a group of Palestinian prisoners who had been on hunger strike – three were martyred in the process”. “No country can accept (hunger strikes) as a way to get out of prison”. Ahmad Tibi, a leading Arab lawmaker, visited Allan on Saturday and said the hunger striker was not in a coma and would likely be removed from a respirator soon.
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If the court does decide to release him, it is likely to cause a backlash amongst right-wing Israelis.
