Palestinian lawyer Mohammad Allan back on hunger strike

Palestinian Prisoners Club has said on Thursday that prisoner Mohammad Allan from a village south of Nablus in the West Bank had announced on Wednesday that he was going on a hunger strike again after the Israeli occupation forces rearrested him following his release from an Israeli hospital.

A researcher working at that prisoners club, Fidaa Najada, told al-Araby al-Jadeed: "Allan has decided to resume his hunger strike in protest for his rearrest, as he was transferred to the Ramleh prison hospital clinic, and [Israel] kept its decision to detain him administratively until the fourth of November."

Allan had ended his hunger strike last month after the Israeli Supreme Court agreed to release him from prison to get treated at Barzilai, an Israeli hospital.

After a slight improvement in his health, the Israeli authorities refused to allow him to be transferred to a West Bank hospital to continue receiving treatment, and rearrested him on Wednesday.

Allan went on an open hunger that lasted more than two months and his health seriously deteriorated, almost damaging his brain.