The Palestinian prisoner Mohammad Allan ended his hunger
strike as his health status has slightly improved after he regained
consciousness, his lawyer Jamil al-Khatib revealed on Thursday evening.
Khatib said, following a visit he paid to Allan at the Barzilai
medical center at 5:40 p.m., Allan can speak well and started taking
supplements and medications required.
Khatib revealed that Allan can move to any hospital or go back home
when treatment period is over. He pointed out that he is not surrounded
with jailers or guards as before.
Earlier, on Wednesday the Israeli court offered to release Allan while he is in coma, suffering brain damage.
Allan has been on hunger strike for 65 days to protest Israel’s
practice of holding suspects indefinitely, without charge or trial, in a
practice known as administrative detention.
Rights groups say the overused measure violates international law.
The much-protested case took a new turn earlier Wednesday after Israeli authorities ordered medical tests to determine if Allan’s brain had been damaged due to the hunger strike. Doctors said the results of an MRI were inconclusive.
Palestinians in Israeli jails regularly go on hunger strike in protest at both the unfair administrative detention policy as well as the harsh prison conditions in Israeli jails.
More than 7,000 Palestinians are reportedly incarcerated in 17
Israeli prisons and detention centers, many of them without charge or
trial.
Rights groups say the overused measure violates international law.
The much-protested case took a new turn earlier Wednesday after Israeli authorities ordered medical tests to determine if Allan’s brain had been damaged due to the hunger strike. Doctors said the results of an MRI were inconclusive.
Palestinians in Israeli jails regularly go on hunger strike in protest at both the unfair administrative detention policy as well as the harsh prison conditions in Israeli jails.
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