Israeli police have re-arrested Palestinian hunger striker Mohammed Allan, less than one month after the country’s Supreme Court suspended his detention because of failing health.
“Allan’s medical condition improved, and he was once again arrested this morning,” Israel police spokeswoman Luba Samri said Wednesday.
He will be held until November 4, police said, which is the end of his detention.
Allan, a Palestinian lawyer, had been held on administrative detention, without charge or trial, since November 2014.
Israel accuses Allan of being a member of the militant Islamic Jihad, which his lawyers deny.
Allan had been on a 65-day hunger strike, when he fell unconscious and was placed into a medically-induced coma.
His lawyers contend he had suffered brain damage and should be released because he no longer posed a security threat.
On August 19, the court suspended his administrative detention, but recommended that he remain in a hospital to recover.
The Israeli Medical Association says more than 1,000 protesters have gone on hunger strikes over the past several years.
But Allan’s refusal to eat has put a spotlight on Israel’s new force-feeding law.
The law, passed in July by the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, allows the government to force-feed hunger strikers if their lives are in danger.
The new law has been criticized both inside and outside the country.
The United Nations has called the law a “cause for concern.” And the Israeli Medical Association has called force-feeding “equivalent to torture,” urging Israeli doctors not to comply.