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Maazouze Allan, the mother of Palestinian prisoner Mohammed Allan, walks outside her son's room following a visit to the Barzilai Medical Center in the Israeli city of Ashkelon on Thursday.
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Palestinian detainee Mohammed Allan ended a two-month hunger strike on Thursday that had put his life at risk and sparked intense debate over his detention without trial by Israeli authorities, his lawyer said.
His decision to stop his protest came after Israel's top court late on Wednesday suspended his detention without trial, but ordered him to remain in hospital pending a final decision on his case.
Allan's hunger strike, which began on June 18, had captured the attention of both the Israeli and Palestinian public, while putting the Jewish state under increasing pressure as the 31-year-old's health worsened.
The court's ruling sparked criticism from Palestinian activists who said it had come too late, with Allan's health deteriorating, as well as from Israeli ministers claiming judges had given in to "blackmail".
Allan's lawyer and his mother visited him in hospital in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon on Thursday and said his health was improving, though he remained bedridden and was receiving vitamins and minerals intravenously.
"Mohammad Allan regained consciousness and is not on hunger strike," lawyer Jamil al-Khatib told journalists.
"He is in a good health condition and can communicate with others. He can't eat food in his mouth because it needs a while. Now he is drinking water and it will be gradual, and I imagine this will be next week."
His mother Maazouza said "I was shaking but happy because I saw he was awake and talking, even if he was slow, not like the day when I entered (Sunday) and he was in a coma."
Islamic Jihad says that Allan, a lawyer from the West Bank, is a member of the Palestinian militant movement, as does Israel.
He has been held since November in a form of internment without trial known as administrative detention, which was temporarily lifted by Wednesday's High Court ruling.
Under the order, Allan can ask to be moved to another hospital, but it left open the question of what would happen if or when his health improves and he is able to stop medical treatment.
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