An Israeli court on Monday evening sentenced the Palestinian student Ansam Shawahna aged 20 to five years in jail and a two-year suspended term.
Ansam’s father Abdul Nasser told the Palestinian Information Center that his daughter attended at least 26 court hearings over the past 20 months during which she had been subjected to exhausting inter-prison transfers from Damon to HaSharon jail and to Kishon investigation center.
The father added that the court initially ruled that Ansam be sentenced to 10 years in jail but the lawyer appealed the verdict.
The Palestine Prisoners Center for Studies confirmed the piece of news adding that Ansam was sentenced to a prison-term after she had been held in Israeli lock-ups without trial for 20 months.
Ansam was arrested by the Israeli occupation forces on March 9 2016 near Israel’s illegal settlement outpost of Kadumim built on Palestinian land east of Qalqilya on her way back home from an-Najah University in Nablus.
The occupation army accused Ansam of attempting to stab an Israeli settler. Shortly afterwards she had been made to endure intensive interrogation for over two weeks before she was transferred to HaSharon jail and then to Damon.
The center added that the Israeli courts adjourned Ansam’s trial for over 25 times before ultimately sentencing her to a five-month prison term and a two-year suspended sentence.
At the same time the Israeli Ofer court sentenced the Palestinian prisoner Mohamed al-Refa’iya from al-Khalil to 26 years in jail and a suspended five-year prison-term.
According to lawyer Ahlam Haddad the court also ruled that the detainee pay a bail of 10000 shekels and 170000 shekels as a compensation over the damage wrought on four Israeli settlers by an anti-occupation car-ramming attack carried out by Refa’iya on May 14 2015.
