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Since November he has been in what is known as administrative detention, which allows people to be held without charge for six-month intervals that can be renewed indefinitely. He refused food to draw attention to his prolonged detention in an Israeli jail without charge or trial.

Israel Monday offered to free a Palestinian detainee whose two-month hunger strike has left him in a coma – but only if he goes overseas, a demand his lawyer immediately dismissed.

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

Over the past few years, Palestinian prisoners have staged a series of hunger strikes to protest administrative detention.

The UN labelled hunger strikes “a fundamental human right”. Hospital spokeswoman Ayelet Kedar said Thursday that doctors did not intervene because Allan was not yet in life-threatening condition.

Israeli public radio, reporting from the southern city of Ashkelon where Allan is hospitalised at Barzilai Medical Centre, said an ethics committee has already ruled in favour of intervention.

Detainee Mohammed Allan, who fasted for 60 days, is in stable condition at an Israeli hospital.

A Palestinian man’s hunger strike has raised the debate of force-feeding prisoners.

“Another border policeman saw it and shot the assailant” who was killed on the spot, she said in a statement. “The patient is receiving medical treatment including ventilation and intravenous fluids and salts”.

The law can not compel a doctor to force-feed or perform an examination, Hadar said.

“This force-feeding is trying to be imposed on doctors for security and political reasons, that have nothing to do with medical reasons”, Walden said.

On Wednesday, some 200 supporters of Allan clashed with Israeli right-wingers near the hospital.

Dr. Shimon Glick, a professor of medicine at Ben Gurion University, said he “would have no hesitation” complying with a force-feeding order. Ali Akbar Salehi, who studied at MIT alongside Moniz, said he wanted the energy minister to be involved in the talks, since the US official was capable of “moving things along”. “He had no idea why he is in prison because he hasn’t been told”, human rights barrister Mark McDonald said. Bring posters and flyers about administrative detention and Palestinian hunger strikers and hold a protest, or join a protest with this important information.

Pressure mounting for release of hunger striking prisoner Muhammad Allan, who is in a coma and on life support since Friday. The U.S. military released Dhiab to Uruguay in December, but he, his lawyers and U.S. news organizations have not dropped their federal court bid for the release of videos showing him being forced from his cell to prison camp forced-feelings.