Extending the arrest of Ala’ Salah despite losing his eye due to a rubber bullet
The Magistrate judge extended on Monday the arrest of 18-year old Ala’ Nabil Emran Salah until next Sunday.
Ala’ turned himself in last Monday (4/1/2016) for interrogation at Al-Maskobyeh police center in West Jerusalem after occupation forces raided his house in the village of Esawyeh and provoked his family, insulted them and damaged the house contents. The police extended his arrest and prevented his mother from attending the court session.
Ala’ Salah, a freed prisoner who spent several months in the occupation’s prisons in addition to one year of house-arrest, was injured with a rubber bullet in his eye on 17/10/2015 which led to the removal of his eye and facial fractures (around the eye and nose).
His mother said: “Ala’ and I were on our way to the hospital to visit my daughter who was in labor. While walking towards the bus station in the village of Esawyeh, there were ongoing clashes between young men and occupation forces that heavily fired tear-gas canister and rubber bullets in the area. I hid in one of the neighborhoods after suffering a state of suffocation and was separated for minutes from my son Ala’. I then heard the young men saying that somebody lost his eye.”
She added: “Ala’ was injured with a rubber bullet in his eye and suffered severe bleeding and fractures. He underwent a surgery and his left eye was removed. He also underwent another surgery to implant platinum underneath his eye in addition to another surgery in the nose; he still needs another surgery for his eyelid which was removed.”
She continued: “My son did not finish his treatment and was requested for interrogation. He needs ointments for the eye and another surgery.”
Ala’s mother pointed out that this is the third-arrest for her son. The first time he was arrested from the area of Damascus Gate under the pretext of throwing stones and was 16-years old then; he was released on condition of house-arrest and was banned from going to school for a long time. Few days after the house-arrest was over, he was arrested and detained for two months and last week he was arrested again.
It is noteworthy that the occupation authorities arrested the 18-year old Mohammad Burqan from the neighborhood of Al-Thori in Silwan who also lost his eye during clashes in the neighborhood last year; he received treatment while under arrest.
