Israeli border policeman stabbed in West Bank, assailant killed

Israel says Allan is being held for his activities with the Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian militant group that has carried out numerous violent attacks against civilians.

While Israel’s new law applies to all prisoners held in Israeli jails, Palestinian prisoners have used hunger strikes as a tool to draw attention to their detention without trial or charges. His case has become a source of growing concern among the Palestinian public, while Israel faces a dilemma over whether to force-feed the protester.

This step doesn’t change a thing in the West Bank, rather it only constitutes a step toward violating civil rights, especially those of Palestinian citizens.

The PNA accused the Israeli government of “giving a green light to its security forces to facilitate the process of pressing on the triggers and to kill the Palestinians in cold blood”.

The human rights group Addameer stated on Friday that “Doctors reported to Allan’s mother and his lawyer that he was suffering from continuous shivering and seizures and was unable to breathe before he lost consciousness”. The soldier received medical treatment at the scene.

Doctors have lamented that they have been caught up in a political debate, and the Israeli Medical Association is challenging the force-feeding law in court. “They can give him water and other fluids intravenously. There’s no need to go straight to forced-feeding”. He slipped into unconsciousness on Friday and is being treated at an Israeli hospital.

Yesterday, the NGO appealed to Barzilai medical staff.

“In the early hours of this morning, there was a deterioration in Mohammad Allan’s condition”, said Ayelet Kedar, a spokeswoman for the Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon, Israel. He has been taking only water throughout his fast and experts say that survival under such conditions is uncertain after two months. “He is on mechanical respiratory support now”, he said.

Two previous prominent hunger strikes, held by Khader Adnan and Samer Issawi, were ended by the strikers in a state of malaise after a deal leading to their respective releases from administrative detention was reached.

The law, passed narrowly in July, allows a judge to sanction force-feeding or medical treatment if an inmate’s life is threatened, even if the prisoner refuses.

No Palestinian prisoner has yet died while on hunger strike, though Israel’s force-feeding of prisoners in the 1980s led to several deaths, according to Addameer. There, U.S. military health workers force-fed as many as 46 detainees during a hunger strike in 2013, and are still tube-feeding an undetermined number of prisoners.