The Israeli police on Thursday handed over a ban order to the two Palestinian instructors Khadija Khweis and Hanadi Hulwani ruling that both do not enter holy al-Aqsa Mosque for six months.
Hulwani and Khweis showed up at the Israeli Qishleh police station west of Occupied Jerusalem afternoon Wednesday and received the ban order from Israeli intelligence officers.
The women had been made to endure hours of intensive interrogation over their presence at al-Aqsa Mosque—the third holiest site in Islam.
The ban issued on account of secret intelligence data and signed by Jerusalem’s police chief is to enter into effect as of November 17 until May 13 2018.
An earlier one-month ban issued by the Israeli police against Hulwani and Khweis shortly after they were released from jail ended on October 27.
Hulwani was kidnapped by the Israeli forces from her home in Jerusalem’s neighborhood of Wad al-Jouz on September 17. Khweis was arrested after she turned herself in to questioning on September 6.
On September 28 an Israeli court ruled that they be released on conditions of a 14-day house arrest and a one-month ban from al-Aqsa Mosque. Both were also subjected to a travel ban and a ban from the West Bank for six months. The court further ordered that they pay a bail of 5000 shekels each.
Instructors Hulwani and Khweis have been arrested by the Israeli occupation forces on several earlier occasions. They had also been barred from al-Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem’s Old City. Their names appear on a blacklist of women banned by the Israeli forces from praying at al-Aqsa Mosque.
