Kemo
08-20-2015, 01:43 AM
Palestinian detainee Mohammed Allan ended his 65-day hunger strike against his detention without trial on Wednesday after the Israeli Supreme Court suspended his arrest warrant, his lawyer said.
Allan has sustained brain damage as result of his hunger strike and is hospitalized in Israel in critical condition. The court said that in his current condition he poses no threat and therefore suspended his arrest warrant.
The 31-year-old Islamic Jihad activist's case was being monitored closely by opposing sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which had looked likely to boil over into new violence if Allan were to have died as result of his strike.
"The story is over, administrative detention is canceled and therefore there is no strike," Allan's lawyer, Jameel Khatib, told Reuters.
The Israeli government saw his hunger strike as a powerful challenge against "administrative detention", a practice that has drawn criticism from Palestinians and human rights groups but which Israel calls necessary for its national security.
It fears his release would only encourage some 370 other Palestinian detainees held without charge to refuse food.
Allan has sustained brain damage as result of his hunger strike and is hospitalized in Israel in critical condition. The court said that in his current condition he poses no threat and therefore suspended his arrest warrant.
The 31-year-old Islamic Jihad activist's case was being monitored closely by opposing sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which had looked likely to boil over into new violence if Allan were to have died as result of his strike.
"The story is over, administrative detention is canceled and therefore there is no strike," Allan's lawyer, Jameel Khatib, told Reuters.
The Israeli government saw his hunger strike as a powerful challenge against "administrative detention", a practice that has drawn criticism from Palestinians and human rights groups but which Israel calls necessary for its national security.
It fears his release would only encourage some 370 other Palestinian detainees held without charge to refuse food.