The Israeli military court of Ofer has extended the administrative detention of Palestinian prisoner Ismail Farraj for the fourth consecutive time.
The court made its decision in the absence of the prisoner and his lawyer after all Palestinian administrative detainees decided recently to boycott all Israeli military courts which they described as “kangaroo courts”
The court verdict was handed to prisoner Farraj in Ofer jail and it stated that the court responded to the request of the military prosecutor who asked for the extension at the pretext that the detainee was still a threat to Israel’s national security.
Farraj a university student was kidnapped from his home by Israeli soldiers in April 23 in al-Dawha town in Bethlehem.
