29-03-2024 01:53 AM Jerusalem Timing

Zionist Entity to Free Hunger Striker Mohammad Allan

Zionist Entity to Free Hunger Striker Mohammad Allan

The Zionist entity is to free a Palestinian detainee who survived a two-month hunger striker, Mohammad Allan, later Wednesday after holding him for a year without trial.

The Zionist entity is to free a Palestinian detainee who survived a two-month hunger striker, Mohammad Allan, later Wednesday after holding him for a year without trial, the prison service said.

Allan was arrested in November 2014 and held under a measure known as administrative detention, which allows imprisonment without trial for six-month periods renewable indefinitely.Palestinian hunger striker Mohammad Allan

In June, he began a two-month hunger strike that brought him near death and heightened tensions in the occupied West Bank.

Israel's High Court suspended his detention on August 19 as he was given medical treatment following his hunger strike, which twice left him in a coma.

His detention was renewed in September after his health improved and he was discharged from hospital.

Allan then resumed his hunger strike, only to call it off two days later. Later in the month, the Israeli army announced his detention would not be renewed and he would be released on November 4.

An Israeli prison service spokeswoman confirmed Allan would be released later on Wednesday, without providing further details.

The Islamic Jihad Palestinian resistance movement says the 31-year-old lawyer from Einabus, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, is a member.

He was previously imprisoned from 2006 to 2009 for allegedly seeking to recruit suicide