Prison sentences and administrative detention renewals for Jerusalemite prisoners
The Israeli courts issued prison sentences against a number of Jerusalemite prisoners, while the occupation authorities renewed the administrative detention of others.
A lawyer from the Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Jerusalem explained that the court sentenced the Jerusalemite prisoner Abdul Salam Qawasmi (34 years old) to three years and five months in prison, and prisoner Thaer Assaileh (36 years old) to three years in prison.
The forces arrested the two young men in November 2024 and subjected them to harsh interrogations.
The occupation authorities also renewed the administrative detention of Anwar Obeid and Hamed Obeid for the second time in a row, for an additional four months for each of them.
The Information Center explained that Jerusalemite prisoner Anwar Obeid has been subjected to harassment since he was 12 years old, through repeated arrests, deportations, summonses, threats, and periods of house arrest.
He has been arrested more than 20 times, spending a total of nearly five years in prison at varying lengths. On his engagement day in 2021, he was arrested and released, then re-arrested while preparing for his wedding the following year. He was sentenced to four months in prison at the time. Over the past few years, he has been placed under house arrest for several months and deported from Jerusalem for 10 months.
In the same context, last Tuesday, the court sentenced Mahmoud Wael Rajabi, a young man from the Shu’fat refugee camp, to 27 months in prison, along with a fine of 6,000 shekels.
