Allan was imprisoned earlier uncharged and untried solely for political reasons, held indefinitely under lawless administrative detention. He committed no crimes, nor was he accused of any.
His heroic 66-day hunger strike left him close to death - and according to doctors, brain-damaged. After Israel’s High Court ordered his detention suspended, he remained hospitalized in Israel - then lawlessly rearrested on September 16 and again imprisoned.
According to Palestinian Prisoners Society head Qadura Fares, Israel reinstated his administrative detention - what he nearly gave his life for resisting.
Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri issued a statement, saying “Muhammad Allan, whose condition has improved, was arrested this morning by police at the hospital in Ashkelon.”
After being discharged to go home, his long ordeal continues. He now faces deplorable mistreatment in Ramla prison hospital, notorious for medical negligence, systematically denying proper treatment, willfully inflicting greater pain and suffering.
Allan faces indefinite administrative detention, uncharged and untried, forever if Israeli authorities order it. His only chance for justice may be hunger striking again until death.
His father wanted him transferred to a Nablus hospital near home - to continue his long struggle back to good health.
“My son told me that he doesn’t trust (Israelis), and if they break their promise to him, he will resume his hunger strike immediately," he said.
He’ll likely begin straightaway. It was too much to hope that his long ordeal ended. It continues under a ruthless, racist, Arab-hating regime.
Claiming Allan is a threat was Israel’s fabricated reason for imprisoning him, denying him due process to defend himself - like thousands of other Palestinian prisoners languishing in Israel’s gulag.
Maan News said he told his attorney: “Administrative detention returns us to slavery, and therefore I refuse to be a slave to anyone.”
“The truth is that I currently prefer hunger as long as freedom is the goal in the absence of law in Israeli courts. So, I found myself forced to fight this battle.” His long ordeal continues.
Separately, Netanyahu intends deploying IDF snipers with orders to use live fire against Palestinian youths and children stone-throwers - escalated police state violence, assuring greater state-sponsored murder than already.
“It has been decided to toughen the measures in many areas,” he said. “A modification of the rules of engagement will be examined as well as the establishment of a minimum penalty for those who throw stones.”
New rules include “significant fines,” lengthy prison sentences and shoot-to-kill orders, permitting indiscriminate murder, more criminality by a ruthless, rogue regime.
On Wednesday, Israeli forces assaulted Palestinian men, women and Al-Aqsa guards near the compound for the fourth straight day. Injured victims needed hospital treatment.
PLO Executive Committee member Hanan Ashrawi said “Israel is playing with fire. Clearly, Israel is deliberately creating and escalating a situation of instability, insecurity and violence, thereby incrementally assuring by force its power/security control in preparation for the total annexation and transformation of Al-Haram Al-Sharif.”
“By imposing its own version of its concept of the Temple Mount on the third most holiest Islamic site, Israel is not only provoking the Palestinians, but the entire Muslim world.”
“We call on the international community, including Arab countries and Muslim states, to intervene immediately before Israel succeeds in launching a global holy war.”
Extremist Israeli officials want a third Jewish temple replacing Al-Aqsa. They want Muslims excluded from their third holiest site. They want it exclusively for Jews.
World leaders are dismissive - one-sidedly supporting Israel’s worst crimes at the expense of fundamental Palestinian rights.
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PFLP holds Israel responsible for the life of Muhammad Allan, demands his freedom
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine holds the Israeli occupation state fully responsible for the life of the imprisoned struggler, brother Muhammad Allan, who today faces death, jailed and hospitalized after 60 days of hunger strike. The Front urges action and mobilization by all friends of Palestine and by our Palestinian people, everywhere in the world, demanding his immediate freedom.
In a statement released today, Comrade Khaled Barakat, coordinator of the International Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa’adat, said that “we hold Israel fully accountable for the life of Muhammad Allan, the heroic imprisoned Palestinian struggler. Israel is responsible for his life and must bear the consequences if he dies.”
“Muhammad Allan, if he dies, will not be the first Palestinian executed by Israel within its dungeons, through torture, denial of medical care or forced feeding. Four Palestinian prisoners – Abdul Qader Abul Fahem, Ali al-Jaabari, Rasim Halawa, and Ishaq Maragha – were killed by force-feeding – with which Allan is threatened today, even as he lies in a coma,” Barakat said.
“Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed and had their lives taken inside Israeli prisons over decades of occupation, but he would be the first Palestinian prisoner to die on hunger strike. The liberation martyrs whose lives have ben taken by colonizers as they hunger strike for justice and freedom – like Bobby Sands and his 9 Irish comrades in British prison – are immortal symbols of struggle that belong to global movements for justice and liberation,” said Barakat.
“The case of Muhammad Allan illustrates that Palestinians will continue to struggle by all means until they defeat administrative detention. We know that this is a long and brutal battle, as it is a system that serves the interests of the occupation and that they are not willing to relinquish. It is a system that was inherited from the era of British colonialism in Palestine, which means that we hold Britain responsible for Muhammad Allan and for every Palestinian who is and has been held in administrative detention,” Barakat said.
“However,” he noted, “The popular forces of freedom, justice and liberation around the world, marching side by side with the Palestinian people, will be victorious and will bring down administrative detention. And they will be victorious in winning the liberation of Palestinian prisoners and of Palestine itself.”
“Brother Muhammad Allan demonstrates true Palestinian heroism and courage,” Barakat said. “He follows in the steps of many other Palestinian prisoners, using his last resource to confront the occupation, even through hunger. We are witnessing the birth of new young Palestinian leaders in the arena of confrontation with the occupation: Lina Khattab, Khader Adnan, Muhammad Allan. This is the case and experience of every colonized and oppressed people who rise up for their liberation.”
“Finally, Israel must bear the consequences and pay for its crimes. Israel has enjoyed global impunity thanks to the support of the United States and fellow imperial powers. This must come to an end through the efforts of Palestinian resistance and revolution, supported by the people of the world,” Barakat said. “Otherwise, the business of occupation,killing and torture will continue as business as usual.”
“There is a need to build the international campaign against administrative detention. This should be a priority and part of the efforts of the international movement to boycott Israel, as the prisoners emphasized in their latest statement,” Barakat said. “We need to hear the voices of the world demanding freedom for Muhammad Allan, demanding freedom for our imprisoned leaders.”
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