Israeli police on Wednesday decided to ban five Palestinians from entering al-Aqsa Mosque—Muslims’ 3rd holiest site—for 15 days.
Lawyer Mufeed al-Haj from the Palestinian Prisoners Society said Israel’s Magistrate’s Court west of Occupied Jerusalem ruled that Fatah members Awad al-Salamiya and his brother Ashraf along with Tareq and Ahmed al-Amouri and Mohamed Shalaby be released on conditions that they be banned from entering al-Aqsa Mosque for a couple of weeks and made to sign a personal fine and a third-party fine of up to 10000 shekels each.
The ban was issued on account of the men’s involvement in Friday’s protests in solidarity with Occupied Jerusalem and al-Aqsa Mosque.
At the same time the Israeli court released the head of the Committee of Jerusalemite Prisoners’ and Ex-Prisoners’ Families Amjad Abu Asab on condition of a five-day house arrest. Asab was also ordered to stop using his mobile phone and pay a fine of 1000 shekels.
The five men along with Abu Asab and three youths from Jerusalem’s al-Issawiya village were arrested in an abduction sweep launched by the occupation forces at daybreak Wednesday.
The Israeli court extended the remand of al-Issawiya’s three youths until Sunday pending intensive interrogation over the same issue.
