Israel doctor: Palestinian hunger striker improving

Doctors say he has suffered brain damage and will remain in hospital but that his shackles will be taken off and his relatives can visit him. He woke up Tuesday, but by Wednesday Dr. Chezy Levy in Barzilai said Allan was speaking incoherently and “not connecting with his environment”, hinting at possible brain damage. On Thursday, after slipping in and out of a coma, he was reported to be in critical condition. Administrative detention leaves the prisoners and their families and friends in a prolonged state of uncertainty and isolation.

Instead, the discussions at the court lingered for three days, “a delay that caused a possibly irreversible deterioration of the detainee’s health condition”.

“Sometimes it can be hard for a mother to understand that this is something much bigger than him and her”, said Hend Salman, 36, one of the activists who has been supporting Maazouzeh at the hospital.

“Specifically, the US government remains concerned at the unequal treatment that Palestinian-Americans and other Arab-Americans receive at Israel’s borders and checkpoints”.

Last week supporters of Allan clashed with Israeli right-wingers near the hospital.

Prison authorities may begin force feeding him imminently – perhaps pending on how Israel’s High Court rules on his case. That new law has been criticized as providing “a legislative foundation for torture”.

The recurrent violent incidents and radicalization in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem and Gaza threaten to further destabilize an already tense environment, which he said share a common thread that are “the inevitable product of the failure to make the tough choices necessary to resolve this conflict”.

Palestinians and Israelis are also watching the fate of a Palestinian prisoner who has been on a hunger strike in protest of his detention without charge. Israel need not [keep] these prisoners for so long without charges, and it’s about time to begin releasing some of these prisoners, and create some kind of good will with the Palestinians.

Israel is now holding approximately 300 Palestinian and five Jewish detainees in prison under renewable six-month detention orders. The administrative confinement is 6 months than can be infinitely renewed. “In the West Bank, there is no such obligation”, Addameer lawyer Jeanne Aouda Zbidat told Al Jazeera.

NF: It is still a way out because – as numerous news reports have stated – they were afraid that if he died in jail, on the hunger strike it would invoke very significant reaction among Palestinian prisoners in particular, and in Palestinian society in general.

“The story is over, administrative detention is cancelled and therefore there is no strike”, Jameel Khatib told Reuters. Yesterday he regained consciousness – vowing to continue hunger striking for justice until death if not achieved.

“I do believe that coordinated strikes can achieve more than individual ones”.

Mr Allan’s hunger strike has continued despite Israel’s parliament passing a law last month, which doctors strongly opposed, that would allow the authorities to force-feed detainees to keep them alive.