Palestinian activists called for organizing protest sit-ins under the theme “Basel will hold them to account” in occupied Palestinian territories and in a number of countries in coincidence with the Palestinian Authority (PA) trial of martyr Basel al-A’raj along with five of his imprisoned companions in Israeli jails over the charge of illegal weapon possession. The trial is scheduled to be held in Ramallah on Sunday.
According to a call launched over social media websites the protesters are going to take to the streets in Palestinian and Arab cities of Ramallah Gaza Haifa Amman Tunis and Rabat in addition to a number of European cities. The event aims at protesting the trial of martyr al-A’raj whose body is still detained by the Israeli occupation authorities as well as condemning the PA policy of political detention.
The main sit-in will be staged in front of the courts compound in al-Baloa area in Ramallah city on Sunday at 2 p.m.
The lawyer of martyr al-A’raj Muhannad Karaja pointed out that the trial sessions have not been completed yet since the release of al-A’raj and his colleagues on bail (2000 Jordanian dollars each). The hearings are still periodically held in their case despite being arrested by Israeli occupation forces who rounded them up few days after their release from the PA prisons where they had been detained for months over the charge of planning to form a resistance cell.
Al-A’raj a pharmacist and a prominent anti-occupation activist from al-Walaja town in Bethlehem was fatally gunned down by Israeli occupation soldiers in a house in Ramallah at dawn last Monday.
