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His resistance and the support he has won are a profound embarrassment for both the Israeli and the Palestinian authorities, who fear that his death could spark wide scale unrest in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, and a mass hunger strike in Israeli jails.

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

The Israeli military says its troops shot a Palestinian man who stabbed an Israeli soldier after asking for a glass of water.

In a video released Friday, Allan thanked his Israeli Arab “brothers” for supporting his protest against his administrative detention by Israel.

The Israeli Supreme Court on Wednesday suspended the detention of a critically ill Palestinian inmate whose two-month hunger strike has placed a harsh spotlight on Israel’s legal system.

Doctors say he has suffered brain damage and will remain in hospital but that his shackles will be taken off and his relatives can visit him. He woke up Tuesday, but by Wednesday Dr. Chezy Levy in Barzilai said Allan was speaking incoherently and “not connecting with his...

Around 340 Palestinians are now held in administrative detention, according to Israeli authorities, and detainees have regularly gone on hunger strike to protest.

A number of other Palestinian prisoners have also resorted to hunger strikes – a practice the United Nations has labeled “a fundamental human right” – to protest their indefinite detention.

The Lawyer of hunger-striking prisoner Mohammad Allan, said that the Israeli Military Prosecutor on Wednesday offered that Allan be released on November third, in exchange with suspending his hunger strike until then.

Palestinian detainee Shireen Issawi, held by Israel without trial for alleged involvement with terrorist groups, launched a hunger strike Monday in solidarity with a prisoner who’s protested by going without food for over two months.

Israel sees his hunger strike, which began more than 60 days ago, as a powerful challenge against “administrative detention”, a practice that has drawn criticism from Palestinians and human rights groups but which Israel calls a security necessity.

A Palestinian detainee on a two-month hunger strike emerged from a coma Tuesday but pledged to resume fasting if Israel did not resolve his case within 24 hours, a Palestinian group said.

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.

Earlier this month, a Palestinian non-governmental organization said that almost 150 prisoners have gone on hunger strike since the beginning of August.

Ashkelon is bracing itself for more protests on Monday outside the hospital where Palestinian prisoner Mohammed Allan, hunger striking for over two months, is being kept.