Israeli forces fatally shoot Palestinian after he stabbed officer at checkpoint

Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian attacker after he stabbed an Israeli police officer at a West Bank checkpoint today, the police and the military said.

His hunger strike caught Israel between the hammer and the anvil.

Highlightining the tensions stoked by Allan’s case, five Jews and four Arabs were arrested on Sunday during street confrontations touched off by a march toward Barzilai hospital by supporters of the hunger-striker, Israeli police said.

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. “It was a pretty place, a religious community – we lived there because they wanted us to”, said Dov Zusman, former Gaza settler. In June, Israel released Khader Adnan, 36, a senior activist in Islamic Jihad, after he carried out a 55-day hunger strike to protest his detention.

Isaac Herzog, leader of Israel’s Zionist Union, issued his call after meeting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at his West Bank headquarters.

Allan is on the 63rd day of his hunger-strike in protest of his detention by Israel without charge.

An 18-month-old boy was killed in the July 31 arson attack in the West Bank village of Duma, south of Nablus city, and days later his father died in hospital from burns to more than 80 percent of his body.

Amid reports of administrative detainee and hunger striker Mohammad Allan’s deteriorating health, hundreds of Israeli Arabs on Saturday held a rally along Route 65 in northern Israel’s Wadi Ara to show their support for Allan.

Head of Club’s legal unit said Allan expressed total rejection to pre-conditions set by the Israeli prosecution’s in return for his release.

Allan stressed that in case no agreement was reached to release him, he would ask physicians to stop any form of treatment and that he would refrain from drinking water as well.

Yet 10 years later, Israel controls the movement of Palestinians in and out of Gaza, the food they can have access to, whether they can receive medical treatment or not, and now under the terms of the GRM, whether their homes can be rebuilt.

His strike was aimed at his administrative detention, which allows Israel to hold someone for security reasons for renewable six-month periods.

To force-feed, the doctor must restrain the conscious and shackled prisoner and insert a tube into his or her empty stomach.

Lawyer Jawad Bullos said Mohammed Allan vowed to “hunger strike until he is freed” after he woke up Tuesday.

Jameel Khatib, one of his lawyers, rejected the offer of exile, calling instead for his immediate release but also raising the possibility of setting Sept. 23, the start of a Muslim holiday, as a date for freeing him.

“The only action that can save his life, and the only option the government can do, would be to release him”.