Israel’s Magistrate’s Court in Haifa on Sunday accepted a request to move Raed Salah the leader of the Islamic Movement in the 1948 occupied Palestine to house arrest in Umm al-Fahm city following a six-month house arrest in Kafr Kanna.
Representatives of the Israel Prison Service on Thursday visited Sheikh Salah’s house in Umm al-Fahm to examine its conditions and it was later decided to transfer him there while maintaining the restrictions imposed on him since his release from Israeli jails.
Salah’s lawyer Khaled Zabarqa said that the Israeli court agreed to keep Salah under house arrest in Umm al-Fahm provided that he does not speak to the media or pray in the mosque.
Zabarqa described the Israeli court’s conditions as “unjust and arbitrary”. He stressed “The court had to allow Sheikh Raed to perform prayers especially Friday prayers in the mosque. These arbitrary and illegal conditions are unjustifiable.”
The Israeli authorities imposed house arrest on Sheikh Salah in Kafr Kanna town following his release from Israeli jails on 6 July after one-year imprisonment.
The Israeli Public Prosecution had filed an indictment against Salah accusing him of “inciting violence and terrorism” in his statements and speeches and “supporting an outlawed organization” in reference to the Islamic Movement.
