Palestinian shot dead after stabbing

Doctors said on Monday it is unclear whether he has suffered irreversible brain damage.

Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon, where Mohammad Allaan is hospitalized.

This, the minister asserted, “strongly suggests that the Israeli authorities are covering up the truth about the seriousness of his condition”.

“His life is in danger and he needs to be seen by a doctor very soon”, Amani Sarahna, PPDAA member told Gulf News.

The court on Monday heard the petition to free the prisoner, Mohammed Allan, on health grounds.

“We are categorically refusing that proposal”, Allan’s lawyer Jamil al-Khatib told AFP. The appeal was also sent to the attorney general and chief military prosecutor.

The Palestinian was identified as Mohammed al-Atrash, 22, from Kufr Raei, a village near the northern West Bank city of Jenin. Even though the British withdrew in 1948, the Israelis have continued to use these emergency regulations against the Palestinian population.

Morad Eshteiwy, coordinator of the Popular Struggle Committee, a Palestinian organization, said the protesters called for an end to the Israeli occupation and crimes in the Palestinian lands as well as the unconditional release of all prisoners in Israeli custody.

Administrative detention is typically used against Palestinians, who can be held for months or even years without trial or charge. Samir was released from an Israeli prison in December 2013 after a 266-day hunger strike, but was rearrested by Israel in July 2014.

The attack took place southwest of Ramallah on the busy Highway 443, connecting Jerusalem to Tel Aviv through the West Bank. Now unconscious and shackled to a hospital bed, the lawyer accused of affiliating with terrorists has focused attention on Israel’s controversial detention and force-feeding policies. “The truth is that I now savor hunger as long as the goal is freedom in the absence of law in Israeli courts, and so I found myself having to fight this battle”.

The law states that the Israeli authorities can force-feed prisoners if their lives are at risk. The Israeli Medical Association, which has urged physicians not to cooperate, is challenging the law in the Supreme Court. In the most serious cases, two Palestinian prisoners died from complications from force-feeding in the 1980’s, after which the practice fell out of use, said Walden.

Allawi said that Allan’s original arrest was punishment for his student activism, but after his release he shifted gears and threw himself into his work as a lawyer.

The officer was stabbed at the Beita Junction, south of Nablus in the West Bank, the Israel Defense Forces reported.