Hunger striker gives Israel 24 hours

The Lawyer of hunger-striking prisoner Mohammad Allan, said that the Israeli Military Prosecutor on Wednesday offered that Allan be released on November third, in exchange with suspending his hunger strike until then.

Dr. Hezy Levy of Barzilai hospital in southern Israel, where Allan is being treated, said the detainee was “incoherent” and “not connecting with his surroundings”.

The practice of administrative detention, which amounts to imprisonment without trial for safety reasons, has been criticized by human rights groups – though Israel says it is necessary for national security.

After hearing arguments on whether to release Allan, the High Court set another hearing for Wednesday.

Supreme Court decides to temporarily halt administrative detention of Mohammed Allaan, who refused food for 65 days.

Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog who met Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas warned on Tuesday of the dangers of another intifada (uprising) unless the two sides resume a long-frozen peace negotiations.

In a statement, Director of PLO’s Prisoners’ Committee Eassa Qaraqe’a said delaying the request to release prisoner Mohamed Allan would endanger his life. Doctors have since been intravenously giving him water, vitamins and salts and he was connected to a respirator to assist him in breathing.

The Israeli government had earlier said it would consider releasing Allan if he was found to have irreversible brain damage. “I can not predict right now to what extent it is reversible”, he said.

The court recommended that Allan remain in intensive care at Barzilai Medical Center.

The previous day the Israeli authorities had offered to let him go if he agreed to live in exile for four years – something his lawyers immediately rejected.

Israel uses administrative detention to hold Palestinians deemed to be security risks, while not divulging what the authorities view as sensitive intelligence.

The measure has also been used against Jewish extremists, though in far fewer instances.

A 31-year-old lawyer from the occupied West Bank and a reported member of Palestine’s Islamic Jihad resistance group, Allan was detained by Israeli authorities last November.

Muhammed Allaan has been on a 64-day hunger strike in protest of his administrative detention by Israel.

While Allan was not well-known several weeks ago, his case has now captured the attention of the Palestinian public.

On July 31, a large fire broke out after settlers threw firebombs and Molotov cocktails into two Palestinian houses in the town of Duma, located 25 kilometers (15 miles) southeast of Nablus. The Palestinian was identified as Mohammed Al-Atrash, 22, from Kufr Raei, a village near the northern West Bank city of Jenin.