Palestinian shot dead after stabbing Israeli trooper: Israeli police

Some 400 Palestinians are held in Israel under administrative detention rules, according to figures released by the Palestinian prisoner rights group Addameer cited by Ma’an.

The offer was made in response to the prisoner’s petition to the Israeli High Court of Justice that he be released due to his rapidly deteriorating medical condition.

Allan remained hospitalized at Barzilai hospital in southern Israel.

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

It was not Allan’s first time being detained – he was arrested in 2006 and sentenced to three years in prison, and then was detained again in 2011 and interrogated for 15 days before he was released, according to a profile of Allan by Addameer published in the Arabic-language Quds news site.

Israeli doctors are keeping a hunger striking Palestinian prisoner at the edge of life while his lawyers and the government prepare to square off before the Israeli Supreme Court over his continued detention without charges.

Hundreds of Palestinian supporters gathered to lend their backing to Allan, while police blocked off roads and stopped four busloads of Arab from reaching the hospital. “He considered Israeli administrative detention barbaric even before his own detention”, Ameed told Anadolu Agency.

The appeal came during a meeting in the West Bank with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a rare face-to-face encounter after a more than yearlong diplomatic standstill. “They wanted to prevent us from showing solidarity with a person that the state is punishing for no fault of his own”. An anti-Arab extremist Baruch Marzel said during the protest, “We want him [Allan] to die as quickly as possible and for him to take as many as possible with him.”

A lawyer by profession, Allaan has been held by Israel since last November on suspicion of membership in the Islamic Jihad group.

Daniel Jacobsen, a Barzilai physician, told the court that should Allan regain consciousness and say that he wanted to discontinue treatment, the staff would honour his wishes.

Allan’s mother has been the only family member to see him, after being permitted entrance to Israel from the West Bank.

Israeli authorities have resolved to force-feed Allan, with a law passed by the Knesset last month legalising the force-feeding of prisoners on hunger strike if their lives are in danger. And the Israeli Medical Association has called force-feeding “equivalent to torture”, urging Israeli doctors not to comply.

Protesters rallied Monday in support of an Israeli who went missing after crossing into the Gaza Strip in a case that has highlighted concerns over alleged discrimination against Israel’s Ethiopian community.