The Israeli ministry of education has suspended the principal of al-Issawiya Junior High School in Occupied Jerusalem after the soccer team which he coaches carried a banner mourning the death of martyr Misbah Abu Subaih during a recent match.
According to the student committee of parents in Issawiya the Israeli education ministry summoned Khader Obaid the school principal to question him over the match that was held recently at Faisal Husseini Stadium north of Jerusalem and informed him of its decision to suspend him for two weeks.
The Israeli decision was taken as a punitive measure against Obaid after he and his team players and members had paused for a picture during a local match as they were holding a placard reading “Hilal al-Quds club mourns the death of al-Aqsa Lion and the brave martyr Misbah Abu Subaih (Abul-Izz).”
Martyr Abu Subaih carried out a shooting attack aboard a vehicle on October 9 in east Jerusalem wounding six Israeli settlers and killing two others.
At the time Hamas claimed the shooter as one of its members and hailed the operation as “heroic and a natural response to Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians and their holy sites.”
