JERUSALEM (AP) – Israeli authorities detained a Palestinian man on Wednesday, just hours after he was discharged from an Israeli hospital following a two-month hunger strike to protest his earlier detention without charges.
Mohammed Allan’s condition had improved enough for him to be discharged, the Barzilai hospital in southern Israel said earlier in the day.
His lawyer, Jamil Khatib, said that shortly after Allan’s left the hospital, he was detained again by Israeli authorities and immediately resumed his hunger strike.
According to the lawyer, the renewed detention is illegal since it did not include a review of the case. Khatib said he would appeal to Israel’s Supreme Court on Allan’s behalf.
Allan ended a 66-day hunger strike last month after Israel’s Supreme Court suspended his detention. The prolonged strike put him in serious condition and doctors feared that he had suffered some brain damage as a result of the fast.