Israel on High Alert as Hunger Striker’s Condition Worsens

A Palestinian detainee in the ninth week of his hunger strike fell unconscious at an Israeli hospital on Friday in a case that could test Israel’s new force-feeding law.

Allan was arrested in November 2014, Khatib said, on suspicion of conducting military activities with the Islamic Jihad.

Two previous prominent hunger strikes, held by Khader Adnan and Samer Issawi, were ended by the strikers in a state of malaise after a deal leading to their respective releases from administrative detention was reached.

Palestine thus calls on the global community to ban “prohibited weapons used by the Israeli army, such as butterfly bombs”, as well as officially list the extremist settlers’ movement as a terrorist group.

“Before forced feeding, there are many, many medical processes”, he said.

It said that a doctor from the global Committee of the Red Cross had come to the hospital. “No country can accept (hunger strikes) as a way to get out of prison”.

Muhammad Allan was on his 54th day of hunger strike on Monday, three days after the Israel Prison Service told his lawyer that they intended to request court authorization to force-feed him.

Israel’s only other option, he said, was to “let him continue with his hunger strike until he dies, and this will also not be good for Israel“.

Israel’s Medical Association urged Israeli doctors not to abide by the law.

“At their last meeting in July the EU Foreign Ministers unanimously voiced their strong opposition to Israeli demolitions and confiscations, including of EU-funded projects, and called for a fundamental change of Israeli policy to enable accelerated Palestinian construction, as well as social and economic development in Area C, ” the EU embassy said.

Karni said she visited Allan in Beersheba last Saturday and was “tortured” to see his gaunt body wasting away while he refused to allow doctors to touch him, even to replace the adhesive securing his intravenous tube.

Mohammed Allaan, a 31-year-old attorney suspected of being a member of the militant Islamic Jihad group, has been placed on an artificial respirator, Al Jazeera reported, citing his lawyer.

“It’s a very harmful law”, said Dr. Tami Karni, a surgeon in Tel Aviv and the chairwoman of the association’s ethics bureau. The documents describe to prosecutors for the first time in detail Israel’s breaches of global law, including serious war crimes in the WestBank and the besieged Gaza Strip.

In a statement sent to VICE News, ADDAMEER, a Ramallah-based prisoner support and human rights NGO, said that Allan was in a “near-death critical condition”. Earlier this week, 200 Palestinian protesters reportedly clashed with Israeli right-wingers, who staged a counter-protest near the Barzilai hospital.

Cheslow is a McClatchy special correspondent.