RAMALLAH (PIC)– Israel’s internal security minister Avi Dichter has rejected an appeal filed by the PA prisoners’ affairs ministry through its lawyer Sheren Esawi to visit and represent three Lebanese citizens kidnapped at the hands of the IOF troops during Israel’s war on Lebanon last July.
According to the lawyer a request in this regard was tabled at the Israeli general prosecution office after officials of the Israeli prisons authority (IPA) in Kfar Yona jail turned down a request filed by the lawyer to allow her visit the detained Lebanese.
Lebanese nationals Hassan Suleiman Mohammed Soror and Maher Korani were arrested at the hands of the IOF troops last July and thrown into the said jail since then.
Close associates of Dichter revealed that the minister used his prerogative under the Israeli criminal law that allows him to restrict representation of prisoners before courts and to limit counseling to appointed lawyers and trusted by the Hebrew state for security reasons.
Esawi revealed that the IOA appointed an Israeli female lawyer to represent the Lebanese under close supervision of the Israeli intelligence apparatus.
She furthermore affirmed she will go to the Supreme Court to appeal the decision of the minister stressing “The detained Lebanese were POWs protected by international laws and conventions and couldn’t be criminally prosecuted”.
In an unrelated matter an Israeli female settler deliberately ran over a five-year-old Palestinian child Tuesday in the old town of Al-Khalil city south of the West Bank.
Local eyewitnesses affirmed that the boy was on his way to his kindergarten before the settler bumped him inflicting fractures and bruises in different parts of his body. The child was rushed to hospital for treatment.
Another 57-year-old Palestinian woman died of a heart attack at her home in Qalqilia city at dawn Tuesday after IOF troops storming the city fired sound bomb inside her home.
“The woman died instantly after the sound bomb intensively exploded near her” neighbors of the woman were quoted as saying.
More IOF troops’ atrocities were registered in Nablus city as Israeli soldiers in the city rounded up four Palestinian youths including two brothers and led them to an unidentified place.
