Palestinian shot dead by Israeli border forces

Later on Monday, the Israeli army detained two Palestinian brothers from the town of Sa’ir after they appeared before the Israeli intelligence for interrogation at Gush Etzion military Compound. Mohammed Allan 30 remained hospitalized in southern Israel.

After hearing arguments on whether to release Allan, the High Court set another hearing for Wednesday. Allan started the hunger strike after his detention without charge was renewed in May, his family has said.

“The only action that can save his life, and the only option the government can do, would be to release him“.

Jamil al-Khatib, one of Allan’s lawyers, said no force-feeding had occurred or was expected to occur, because Israel’s doctors have largely rejected the idea as unethical.

Amid reports of administrative detainee and hunger striker Mohammad Allan’s deteriorating health, hundreds of Israeli Arabs on Saturday held a rally along Route 65 in northern Israel’s Wadi Ara to show their support for Allan.

Issa Qaraqe, Palestinian minister of prisoners’ affairs, has voiced suspicion that Mohamed Allaan – a hunger-striking Palestinian activist jailed by Israel – was force-fed on Friday by officials at Israel’s Barzilai Hospital.

Tensions have soared in the West Bank in recent weeks in the wake of the firebombing of a Palestinian home in the village of Duma, attributed to Jewish extremists, which killed an 18-month-old child and his father.

According to Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri, the attacker approached the checkpoint, telling border police officers there that he felt unwell.

In the aftermath of the attack, an unidentified assailant, assumed to be Palestinian, threw a Molotov cocktail at an Israeli vehicle in northeast Jerusalem’s Beit Hanina neighborhood Monday night, injuring two people.

On August 9, regime troops shot dead a Palestinian who stabbed and lightly injured an Israeli at a petrol station. Arab lawmakers have visited Allan daily in his hospital rooms, first in Beersheba, then Ashkelon.

Allen has been under administrative detention since November 2014.

In 2011, under a deal in which more than 1,000 Palestinians were freed by Israel in exchange for Gilad Shalit, a soldier held in the Gaza Strip, 42 Palestinian prisoners were exiled to countries in the Middle East. Israel said at the time they were too risky to be allowed to return to the West Bank or Gaza.