Palestinians cheer victory for Mohammed Allan over Israeli court order

His resistance and the support he has won are a profound embarrassment for both the Israeli and the Palestinian authorities, who fear that his death could spark wide scale unrest in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, and a mass hunger strike in Israeli jails.

The scan results, however, were inconclusive.

Although they were believed to have been unintentional, Israel has been consistent in its policy of retaliating against targets belonging to Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government.

Allan’s lawyer Jamil Khatib told reporters that his client ended his strike on Thursday and that his condition remained still serious but stable.

Dr. Hezy Levy of Barzilai hospital, however, sounded possibility that Allan might be able to recover.

“There is damage which appears to have been caused by a lack of a particular vitamin”, said Chezy Levy, director of Barzelai hospital in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon. Allan’s body can not yet process food after such a prolonged fast.

Doctors had put him on a respirator and treated him with fluids and vitamins after he lost consciousness.

Israel’s Supreme Court has suspended the detention of Mohammed Allan, who fell unconscious last Friday.

The Israeli Supreme Court has suspended the detention order against a Palestinian hunger striker as his health condition started deteriorating.

The High Court’s decision comes two days after the state rejected a petition to drop the administrative detention orders, saying instead that it would be willing to release Allan on the condition that he be deported and live outside of the country for a period of four years. Rights groups say that while the practice may be acceptable in exceptional cases, it violates the right to due process and has been used routinely by Israel on thousands of suspects.

The Palestinian militant movement Islamic Jihad describes Allan, a lawyer from the West Bank, as a member, as does Israel. Allaan denies the affiliation.

He was previously imprisoned from 2006 to 2009 for allegedly seeking to recruit suicide bombers and assisting wanted Palestinians, according to Israeli domestic security agency Shin Bet.

Allan’s family and friends hailed his release as a victory.

Allan woke up from his 5-day coma on Tuesday morning, which he slipped into within the 59th day of his hunger-strike.

Some 1,500 Palestinians prisoners are being held in the prison facility, with 250 in administrative detention.

Allaan, an alleged Islamic jihad activist, has been in detention since November 2014.

Allan’s protest has raised questions over whether Israel will seek to invoke a law passed last month allowing prisoners to be force-fed when their lives are in danger.

Critics of force-feeding see it as an unethical violation of patient autonomy and akin to torture.

SIEGEL: And what did he want to get from the hunger strike? The Israeli Medical Association, which has urged physicians not to cooperate, is challenging the law in the Supreme Court.

Violence has also soared, with a Palestinian being shot dead while attempting to stab an Israeli security officer in the fourth of such incidents over the past week. Clashes broke out outside Barzilai hospital between his supporters and opponents on several occasions.

Yesterday Israel’s public security minister expressed his concern that releasing Allaan would encourage more Palestinian detainees to wage hunger strikes.