Israeli court jails Palestinian elderly woman for six months
by FalastinNews Staff
An Israeli military court in the occupied city of Tiberias on Thursday
sentenced 60-year-old Ibtisam Hamarsheh to six months in jail and fined
her 10,000 shekels on allegations of her attempt to smuggle a cellphone
for her imprisoned son.
A
family source said that the Israeli judge rejected the deal that had
been agreed upon by Hamarsheh's lawyer and the Israeli prosecutor to
make her only pay the financial penalty.
She has been under house arrest in her sister's home in Umm al-Fahm town since last May 25 after her release on bail.
Despite
her old age and health problems, Hamarsheh, who hails from Yabud town
in Jenin, will go to prison next Sunday, July 26, to start serving her
term.
Her family appealed to human rights groups to intervene to have her released because of her age and poor health condition.
Moreover, Israeli occupation police at dawn Thursday
kidnapped three young men, from al-Ghazzawi family, from their homes in
al-Thawri neighborhood in east Jerusalem and extracted an order from
the magistrate's court on the same day extending their detention for
five days.
The detained young men have been accused of throwing stones at Israelis.
The
Israeli police also released on the same day an eight-year-old boy
named Abdullah Imad after kidnapping him from outside his home in Silwan
district and interrogating him for several hours over allegations of
throwing stones at Israelis.
In another incident, the magistrate's court on Thursday
approved a request filed by the Israeli police to ban the entry of
Anwar Abu Hadwan, a native resident of the holy city, to the Aqsa Mosque
for four months.
Every
once in a while, Israeli police or court issues orders against
Palestinian women in particular banning their entry to the Aqsa Mosque
as punishment for their involvement in defending the Islamic holy place
against desecration attempts by Jewish settlers.
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