Brother and sisters of the Jordanian prisoner Muneer Mar’i headed to the occupied Palestinian territories on Wednesday morning to visit their sibling in an Israeli jail.
Muneer’s brother and his two sisters traveled from Jordan to the occupied Palestinian territories to visit him in an Israeli lock-up so as to check on his conditions.
Speaking with a PIC news correspondent the detainee’s brother Shaheen said the family headed to the occupied territories on their own and that no single delegate from the Jordanian Foreign Ministry accompanied them.
Shaheen expressed concerns that the Israeli occupation authorities will only allow the family to visit Muneer from behind prison bars.
Shaheen added that his brother and sisters will board in a hotel in Occupied Jerusalem for a one-week stay.
One of Muneer’s brothers has not reportedly seen his detained sibling for 26 years.
A few weeks ago Mar’i has gone on a 21-day hunger strike outside the Amman-headquartered Jordanian Foreign Ministry so as to urge the Jordanian authorities to take immediate action and secure a family visit to the detainee.
Israel succumbed to pressure and granted three entry permits to Mar’i’s family.
Jordanian national Muneer Mar’i was arrested on April 2 2003 and was sentenced to five back-to-back life sentences in Israeli jails on charges of sending a group to carry out an anti-occupation operation in an Israeli illegal settlement outpost built on Palestinian lands in al-Khalil.
His parents died while he had been serving the life-sentences in Israeli lock-ups. He had recently been beaten by the Israeli wardens until he fainted.
