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Israel delays request to release Palestinian hunger-strike prisoner

Xinhua, August 17, 2015 Adjust font size:

An Israeli court postponed on Monday a request to release a Palestinian prisoner who has been going on a hunger strike for two months, officials said.

Eassa Qaraqe'a, chief of the prisoners' corporation in Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), told Xinhua that postponing the request to release the prisoner Mohamed Allan would endanger his life.

The Israeli court decided to postpone taking a decision on releasing Allan or keeping him in prison until Wednesday. Allan is admitted at an Israeli hospital after his health situation deteriorated.

"In today's cession of the court, the Israeli attorney proposed to deport Allan outside the Palestinian territories for releasing him and ending his hunger strike," said Qaraqe'a, adding that "Allan's lawyer rejected the offer."

Qaraqe'a added that "deportation of Palestinian prisoners or any Palestinian in the Palestinian territories is basically rejected and it is considered a war crime against humanity."

Allan, 30 years old, is basically a Palestinian lawyer and he is admitted at an Israeli hospital in critical condition. He started his hunger strike in June 15 in protest to keeping him under administrative detention.

Israel keeps around 5,000 Palestinian prisoners in its jails and prisons, including 180 under administrative detention, who are detained without a trial or conviction. Endit