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A doctor at the hospital where Allan is being treated told the court that he had not appeared to suffer irreversible damage but would probably not survive if he resumed his hunger strike.

Al-Khatib told Ma’an that the offer was made before Allan’s health condition badly deteriorated.

Following an appeal for Allaan’s release on medical grounds, the High Court found Monday that “there is no change in the justification for holding [Allaan] in administrative detention”, and said it would reconvene Wednesday for a further hearing on his possible release. Allan has long been carried out for free of charge or pilot considering that November 2014. Arab lawmakers have visited Allan daily in his hospital rooms, first in Beersheba, then Ashkelon.

According to Israeli authorities, Allan is a member of Islamic Jihad, a virulently anti-Israel organization that is on the terrorist list of the United States, Israel and several other countries. The legislation was condemned by the Israel Medical Association, which is challenging the new law in court.

Arabs and Palestinians had planned to stage a rally outside the Barzilai hospital, but Jewish rightwing activists confronted them, chanting racist slogans and saying they hoped Allan died.

Israel and the Palestinians have held on-again, off-again peace talks over the past two decades, and the latest round of U.S.-brokered negotiations broke down more than a year ago with little progress. Israel worries that violence could erupt if Allan dies.

At the heart of the matter is the new, contentious law that allows a judge to sanction force-feeding or administration of medical treatment if there is a threat to an inmate’s life, even if the prisoner refuses.

The Israeli prison administration announced on 7 August that it intended to request a court order to force-feed Allan, but until now the measure has not been implemented.

Since he lost consciousness, doctors have used artificial breathing equipment, fluids and vitamins to keep him alive.

Some 400 Palestinians are held in Israel under administrative detention rules, according to figures released by the Palestinian prisoner rights group Addameer cited by Ma’an.

The Electronic Intifada noted that Ha’aretz had reported that the Israeli state “fears that such a move could encourage administrative detainees to follow Allan’s lead, especially after seven Palestinian detainees began their own respective hunger strikes over the past two weeks”.

Allan has denied the allegations and says Israel should either charge or release him.

Israeli occupation government Monday added that if Allan wakes up from his coma and still wants to continue with hunger-strike, the internationally forbidden force-feeding procedure will take place, since the Knesset in July passed law that legalized it.