RAMALLAH, August 15, 2015 (WAFA) – The health condition of Palestinian detainee Mohammad Allan, who has been on a hunger strike for two months and has passed into a coma amidst a dispute over force-feeding him hit the front page headlines in Palestinian dailies.

Al-Quds reported that Allan is in critical health condition after two-month of going on a hunger strike to protest his illegal administrative detention and that he has been connected to ventilators to assist his breathing.

Both al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported that Allan has slipped into a coma. Al-Hayat al-Jadida quoted Allan’s mother in its main front page news item as warning that her son is dying.

Al-Quds also quoted Allan’s mother, who fell down to the floor crying and screaming in pain  after visiting her son in Barzilai Medical Center, as pleading to take her own life and give [Allan] back to her alive and not a corpse.

On august 10, Israeli prison authorities Monday moved hunger striking Palestinian detainee Mohammad Allan to the Barzilai Medical Center in Ashdod, while awaiting a court’s ruling to allow Israeli physicians to force-feed him.

Israeli TV Channel 10 reported that the Prison Authority decided to move Allan from Soroka hospital in Beersheba to Barzilai, as the latter’s administration expressed willingness to force-feed him.

Al-Quds reported Allan’s lawyer as saying that the Barzilai Medical Center (BMC) in Israel has illegally put Allan under anesthesia after he fell unconscious.

Al-Ayyam quoted the Israeli Medical Association (IMA) as saying that it is time to release Allan and end his administrative detention [without charge or trial].

Al-Quds also reported as part of its coverage of Allan’s critical health condition that a large-scale marches were organized amidst calls to hold demonstrations in 1948 areas, inside the green line, in solidarity of Palestinian detainees held in Israeli prisons, particularly Allan.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida added that Israeli occupation authorities deployed large troops into Israeli prisons where Palestinian detainees are held and imposed new repressive measures against them.

Covering Friday weekly marches across the West Bank, al-Quds and al-Hayyat al-Jadida reported that Israeli forces quelled anti-wall and settlement construction marches and used a remotely-operated drone to suppress and chase down protestors in the Ramallah village of Bilin.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida added that dozens of Palestinian protestors suffocated due to severe tear gas inhalation.

Furthermore, al-Quds reported Israeli media reports revealing that Israel plans to build hundreds of new Jewish-only settler units in several West Bank settlements and to step up settlement construction in Jerusalem.

It also reported that the Palestinian National Council- the PLO’s legislative body- would convene during September to discuss undertaking “large-scale” changes in the Palestinian leadership.

It also reported a senior Hamas official as announcing that Hamas would not take part in the council’s meetings.

Highlighting the financial crisis gripping the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), which has announced a possible delay to the start of the 2015/1016 academic year for hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees, al-Quds reported that Palestinian factions reached a national consensus that the recent measures taken by the UNRWA in the aftermath of this crisis are intended to “put an end to both the Palestinian question and Palestinian refugees’ right of return.”

Furthermore, both al-Quds and al-Ayyam reported that the Arab Bank has reached a settlement in lawsuit ]accusing it of facilitating Hamas’ attacks in Israel[.

Al-Quds further reported that Hebron district suffers from a dire water crisis.

Both al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida reported that Israel “as usual” closed investigation with Meir Ettinger, who was arrested after a Palestinian toddler was killed in a settlers’ arson attack on two homes in Nablus village of Duma. Ettinger is the grandson of Meir Kahane, a rabbi who founded the racist anti-Palestinian movement Kach and was assassinated in 1990 in New York,

Highlighting reports about the proposed Hamas-Israel long-term truce brokered by Tony Blair, al-Ayyam reported a Palestinian People Party’s senior official as revealing that the agreement would involve  the construction of an Israel and NATO-monitored floating seaport linking Gaza to Cyprus.

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