The Israeli military court of Ofer has decided to extend the detention of five relatives of prisoner Omar al-Abed who carried out a stabbing attack in the illegal settlement of Halamish last July until next Sunday.
A lawyer from the Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs said that he filed a petition with the court asking for the release of Abed’s parents two brothers and uncle but the judge decided to postpone the session until all legal proceedings are completed.
Last Wednesday Israeli bulldozers demolished the house of Abed’s family in Kobar town near Ramallah in the context of the mass punishment policy pursued against relatives of attackers.
The Shin Bet Israel’s internal intelligence service accused the detained members of the family of having prior knowledge of Abed’s intention to carry out the attack without moving to report him to the competent Palestinian or Israeli authorities.
19-year-old Palestinian Omar al-Abed infiltrated into a house in the illegal settlement of Halamish in the West Bank on July 21 night and stabbed to death three Jewish settlers from the same family in retaliation to Israeli measures at the Aqsa Mosque.
