More than two months after being jailed for an attempted stabbing attack, 12-year-old Palestinian Dima al-Wawi has finally been freed from prison by Israel. She was then sentenced to prison for the duration of four and a half months and was granted bail amounting to one thousand dollars.
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Sourani and Jabarin presented in detail the caustic effects of the almost 50-year Israeli occupation on the lives of Palestinians, in both Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the extraordinary efforts that they and so many other sectors of Palestinian society undertake to preserve and protect Palestinian human rights and to deter future crimes against Palestinian civilians through pursuit of accountability for serious worldwide law violations.
The wife of a detained Palestinian journalist says she believes Israel is trying to silence him.
Relatives decorated the house with balloons, posters, and banners to welcome the girl home.
Under worldwide law, all Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are illegal, but unlike official settlements, outposts have been built without authorisation from the Israeli government and on land usually occupied by hardline right-wing Israelis.
A security guard ordered her to halt, and a resident instructed her to lie on the ground and told her to give up the knife, which she did.
The Telegraph reports she “confessed to intending to stab a Jew with a knife”.
Sanders on Saturday said that the worst areas of Baltimore resemble the dire living conditions of some Palestinians in the West Bank.
A total of 438 Palestinian children were held in Israeli prisons in February, up from 170 last September, according to Israeli Prison Service figures quoted by the Israeli daily Haaretz.
In November, as the latest wave of violence was heating up, Israel closed several Palestinian news agencies, including a radio station in Hebron, for allegedly inciting Palestinians to attack Israelis.
The ICRC is the only global organisation allowed to visit Palestinians held by the Israeli authorities. The army claims the three other Palestinians are from Nablus, and “planned to carry out an attack in Jerusalem”.
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Israel blames the attacks on incitement by Palestinian religious and political leaders that is compounded on social media sites that glorify and encourage attacks.
