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.
(Source / 27.07.2015)
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