Five Palestinians Killed by Occupation Fire, Says Gaza Ministry

Five Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli occupation fire in fresh protest on the Gaza border Friday, the Health Ministry in the enclave said.

Mohammed al-Nabi, 27, was shot in the head during weekly protests along the Israel-Gaza border fence, health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra.

Three other victims were killed east of Khan Younes and were named by as Nassar Abu Taym, 22, Ghassan Shaat, 23, and 23-year-old Ahmed Abu Labda.

 The report also said that over 80 protesters were also wounded.

Israel Extends Detention without Trial of Female Palestinian Lawmaker

On the other hand, Israeli authorities have extended the detention without trial of Khalida Jarrar, a prominent Palestinian legislator and senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), for the fourth time in a row.

The Arabic-language Palestinian Ma’an news agency reported that the detention was extended by another four months on Thursday.

A large number of Israeli troopers raided Jarrar’s home in the central occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, located 10 kilometers north of Jerusalem al-Quds, on July 2 last year, and arrested her. Her husband, Ghassan, said Israeli forces seized computers during the raid.

Israel’s internal spy agency, Shin Bet, later announced in a statement that Jarrar was arrested along with a Palestinian activist for “promoting terror activities,” without providing any further information.

Jarrar is one of the most outspoken critics of the Israeli occupation and has repeatedly slammed the Tel Aviv regime’s atrocities against Palestinians, Press TV reported.

 

The Israeli regime has been denying the lawmaker the right to travel outside the occupied Palestinian territories since 1988. She campaigned for months in 2010 before receiving the permission to travel to Jordan for medical treatment.

In August 2014, Jarrar received a “special supervision order” from the Israeli military, which ordered her to leave Ramallah to live in the West Bank city of Ariha (Jericho).

However, Jarrar set up a protest tent outside the Palestinian Legislative Council in Ramallah, where she lived and worked, until the controversial order was overturned later in September that year.

Israeli forces last arrested the Palestinian lawmaker on April 2, 2015, after storming her house in Ramallah. She was released from prison on June 3, 2016 on a suspended sentence of 12 months within a five-year period.

According to reports, a total of 13 Palestinian lawmakers are currently imprisoned in Israeli detention facilities. Nine of them are being held without trial under the so-called administrative detention, which is a policy according to which Palestinian inmates are kept in Israeli detention facilities without trial or charge.

Some Palestinian prisoners have been held in administrative detention for up to 11 years.

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