Media reports said that Maher Al- Akhras, a Palestinian prisoner who denies claims of his Islamic Jihad membership, was offered to be freed in November at the end of his administrative detention in return for ending his strike.
The High Court of Justice in Israel denied for the second time a petition to release Al-Akhras, a Palestinian held in administrative detention without trial, who has been on a hunger strike for more than two and a half months.
Al-Akhras, who was arrested in July for his suspected involvement with Palestinian armed group Islamic Jihad, has been hospitalized in an Israeli hospital since September.
Al-Akhras, 49, from Silah al-Dahr village in the West Bank, has been held in administrative detention since his arrest in July - a policy used by Israel to detain suspected fighters without charge.
Israeli authorities accuse him of belonging to Islamic Jihad, a claim Al-Akhras denies.
Rights groups and politicians have sounded the alarm over the rapid deterioration of his health, with the father of six hospitalized at Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot since September.
His wife, Taghreed, has said he is only drinking water and is now “too weak to speak”.
Al-Akhras’ attorney, Ahlam Haddad, has filed an emergency petition with Israel’s High Court calling for his release, warning that he has already sustained “irreversible damage”.
The court rejected the first appeal at a hearing on Monday, only agreeing to not extend the administrative detention.
“He’s in danger of sudden death that could come at any moment now,” Mrs. Haddad told the court, according to local media.
She stressed that Al-Akhras is on hunger strike against administrative detention, in which the prisoner and his lawyer lose all tools to protect him.
She added that attorney's of Al-Akhras has no access to confidential information, no possibility of cross-examining the source of that information.
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