The number of Palestinians sentenced to life in Israeli jails has reached 501 prisoners after an Israeli court recently sentenced the prisoner Amjad al-Najjar to life imprisonment rights sources revealed.
Palestine Center for Prisoners’ Studies affirmed that Israeli courts issued six life imprisonment terms against Palestinian prisoners since the start of the year most recently was Amjad al-Najjar.
Al-Najjar 37 was sentenced to life and fined 350000 shekels for allegedly being involved in an anti-occupation attack in June 2015 that killed a settler and injured three others spokesman for the center Riyad al-Ashqar said.
Almost 6500 Palestinians are being held in 22 Israeli prisons 500 of them are held in administrative detention without charge or trial.
