[wvns] Palestinian Child Political Prisoners
Palestinian Child Political Prisoners: Semi Annual Report 2007
Introduction
Palestinian children comprise over 50% of the population of the West
Bank and Gaza Strip, the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Approximately 60% of children who are arrested in the West Bank and
prosecuted in the Israeli Military Courts are represented by lawyers
employed by Defence for Children International, Palestine Section (DCI).
DCI lawyers also provide a regular prison visiting service to
Palestinian children. During these visits, statements are taken from
them about their experiences in custody, particularly their
experiences during interrogation.
The remaining 40% of Palestinian children who are arrested and
prosecuted in the West Bank are represented by either privately paid
Israeli or Palestinian lawyers or lawyers employed by other
Palestinian non government organizations.
This report is based on approximately 200 cases conducted by DCI
Palestine lawyers in the Israeli Military Courts during January to
June 2007, and 30 statements taken from Palestinian children detained
in Israeli prisons and interrogation and detention centers, during the
same period.
1) Palestinian Children in Israeli Custody
The arrest, interrogation and imprisonment of Palestinian children in
the West Bank , by Israeli military forces, police officers and other
Israeli security personnel, is not a new phenomenon. Israel has been
continuously arresting and prosecuting children since its occupation
of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1967.
During the First Intifada, children were arrested and detained in mass
numbers for stone throwing and other forms of political resistance.
During the Second Intifada, Israel began to use administrative
detention against Palestinian children and convicted and imprisoned
children under the age of 14 years for periods of up to 6 months.
According to the DCI Annual Report of 2002, these latter two detention
patterns did not exist during the years of the First Intifada.
Over the years that have followed the Second Intifada, the arrest,
interrogation and imprisonment of Palestinian children has become
systematic, with monthly numbers of child prisoners averaging between
350 and 430 children. As at the end of July 2007, there were
approximately 385 children in Israeli custody.
During the period January 2007 to June 2007, 47.1% of Palestinian
children who appeared before the Israeli military courts were
sentenced to terms of imprisonment of between 12 months and 3 years or
more. 52.9% of children received sentences of imprisonment of up to 12
months. There were no children acquitted of formal charges.
The Israeli military system that governs the prosecution of
Palestinian children in the West Bank is part of a wider military
legal system that governs every aspect of a Palestinian resident's life.
At the centre of pre trial detention, prosecution and imprisonment is
State approved and directed ill treatment and abuse, in many cases
amounting to torture.
Detention and Imprisonment
At any given point during the period January to July 2007, between 382
and up to 416 Palestinian children were being held in Israeli prisons
and interrogation and detention centers inside the West Bank and Israel.
Month/2007
Palestinian Children in Israeli Custody at end of Month
January
382
February
398
March
384
April
381
May
416
June
384
At the end of June 2007, approximately 160 children were serving
sentences of imprisonment and 224 children were in custody awaiting
trial or sentence.
The majority of children detained were held in prisons and
interrogation centers located outside the occupied territory of the
West Bank and inside Israel .
At any given point during the period January to June 2007, there were
between 21 and up to 32 children being held in Israeli Interrogation
and Detention Centers for interrogation purposes. The majority of
these children were detained in Interrogation and Detention Centers at
Salem in the North of Israel, at Al Moscobiyya in Jerusalem, at
Huwarra near Nablus in the West Bank and at Etzion near Hebron in the
West Bank.
Name Of Facility
Authority Administering Facility
Location inside or outside the Green Line (Israel or the West Bank)
Average Number of Children being held during period January/June 2007
Hasharon Prison
Israeli Prison Service (IPS)
Haifa/Tel Aviv
178
Ofek Prison
IPS
Haifa/Tel Aviv
4
Ofer Prison
IPS
Ramallah, West Bank
58
Megiddo Prison
IPS
North East Israel
12
Damoun Prison
IPS
Haifa
97
Ketziot Prison
IPS
Naqab Dessert, Mid South Israel
18
Huwarra Interrogation and Detention Centre
Israeli Army
Nablus, West Bank
6
Kadumim Interrogation and Detention Centre
Israeli Army
Tulkarem, West Bank
0
Etzion Interrogation and Detention Centre
Israeli Army
4
Kishon (Al Jalame) Interrogation Centre
IPS
North Israel
1
Binyamin Interrogation and Detention Centre
IPS
Ramallah, West Bank
7
Salem Interrogation and Detention Centre
Israeli Army
North East Israel
5
Al Moscobiyya Interrogation and Detention Centre
Israeli Police
Jerusalem
7
Petah Tikva Interrogation and Detention Centres
Israeli Police
Tel Aviv
1
Askelan Interrogation and Detention Centre
IPS
South West Coast of Israel
1
Ramle Compound and Hospital
IPS
Tel Aviv Region
0
At any given point during the same period, between 10 and up to 15
children were being held in administrative detention . Under Military
Order 378, an order that administers and outlines the laws that govern
Palestinian people in the West Bank, a Palestinian child can be
detained in the custody of Israeli authorities without trial or charge
for extendable periods of up to 6 months at a time. Under Military
Orders 378 and 1226, the reasons for administrative detention, are not
disclosed to the detainee or his or her defense lawyer at any stage of
detention or court proceedings. These reasons are commonly referred to
as secret evidence.
As at end of June 2007, there were 2 female Palestinian children in
Israeli custody, one serving a sentence of imprisonment and another
pending trial.
Case Study
Name: Rawan Farah (name changed for privacy)
Age: 16 years
Place of Residence : Hebron District
Date of Arrest: October 2006
Interviews at Hasharon Prison, April and July 2007.
On 15 October 2006, at 12.30pm, I was arrested at Atzion Israeli
Settlement by Israeli police officers. They searched me and threatened
to beat me if I did not provide them my name and tell them where I was
from. They accused me of entering the settlement illegally. They found
a knife in my bag. They put me in the car and I was transferred to
Atzion Interrogation and Detention Centre. I was in the car for 15
minutes while they transferred me. They spoke to me in Arabic and one
of the policemen asked me to lift my shirt. When I did this, he put
his hand on my abdomen. There were two male policemen in the car with
me. This is the first time I have ever been arrested.
Before going to the interrogation centre, I was taken to a police
station. An Israeli officer there began shouting curses and threats at
me. He demanded that I tell him what I had intended to do with the
knife. He started to beat me with his hands. After that, a female
soldier transferred me to another office and there she searched me
while I was naked. She then took me to the doctor who examined me and
after that she put me in an office where there were two soldiers to
guard me. I was handcuffed and shackled.
I was then taken to Atzion and arrived there at about midnight. A
doctor examined me there again. I was interrogated there for 12
continuous hours. During the interrogation they threatened to beat me
if I did not confess. They cursed me and my family members. They
touched certain parts of my body.
The interrogator said to me during the interview that they were going
to transfer me to the Palestinian police so that the Palestinian
police could collectively rape me. After he said this, I told them my
name and I told them I went to the settlement to stab a soldier.
I didn't see a lawyer during the interrogation period. I was sentenced
for 10 months imprisonment for having the knife in my bag. I am in a
room where there are 2 other prisoners. The size of the room is about
6 square metres. There are 2 beds and one of the other prisoners
sleeps on the ground.
Arrest, Transfer, Interrogation and Detention
The pre trial phase in the Israeli military legal system; arrest,
transfer, interrogation and detention pending trial, takes advantage
of a child's vulnerability, immaturity and powerlessness by eliciting
a confession using violent interrogation methods, in circumstances
where there are no pre trial legal rights. Amongst the denial of many
other fundamental rights, children do not have the right to a parent,
a responsible adult or a lawyer to be present during the interrogation
process.
On average, Palestinian children are detained before being taken to
court from between 8 and 21 days. As with adults, under Military Order
378, a child can be detained and interrogated for up to 90 days
without charge.
Judicial officers in the Israeli Military Court system, who are
legally qualified military personnel, adopt the rationale that these
confessions are acceptable as evidence. This type of rationale is a
not a product of any particular type of legal or judicial reasoning,
but is politically motivated, and together with the denial of rights
during the pre trial phase, has the effect of removing the presumption
of innocence from the court proceedings.
Case Study
Name: Sabe' Mouneer Ibrahim Titiy
Age: 17 years
Place of Residence: Balata Refugee Camp, Nablus
Date of Arrest: 10 May 2007
On 10 May 2007, at 2am, I was arrested by Israeli soldiers at home.
The day before, Israeli soldiers entered and raided my grandfather's
house and asked him where I was. After they arrested me, they searched
me and handcuffed me. They slapped me on my face and put me in the jeep.
While the jeep was moving, they were beating me on my body with their
hands and kicking me with their feet. They were cursing me and members
of my family. I asked them where they were taking me but no body
replied. The trip lasted for two hours until we reached Huwarra
Interrogation and Detention Centre. I realized this when we got there.
I spent two days there and they didn't interrogate me. After that they
transferred me to Petah Tikva Interrogation and Detention Centre in a
civil car and there they took me to a doctor who examined me because
my head was hurting me. He took photos of me.
They put me in the cells. The next day, interrogation started at 7am.I
was handcuffed and shackled. When I asked for anything like going to
the toilet or to drink water, the interrogator replied that I have to
tell them everything before they would respond to my requests. The
interrogator was screaming at me and told me that I had to confess to
everything. He left me in the interrogation room handcuffed and put
the air conditioning very high for a long period.
When he returned, he asked me whether I wanted to confess or not. They
stopped interrogating me at 7pm. After that, they sent me to the
cells. The next morning at about 7am, the interrogator came into my
cell to wake me and started to kick me.
I was not allowed a shower or a change of clothes.
I was in solitary confinement and slept on a plastic mattress. The
light was always on and during that period, they transferred me to
another cell with an annoying and loud sound that led to bleeding from
my ears. They took me to the doctor and he said that there was nothing
wrong with me but he asked that my cell be changed.
During those 20 days, they transferred me to the collaborator section
in Kishon (Al Jalami) Interrogation and Detention Centre. There were
about 4 interrogators. One of them was treating me in a good way.
Another was screaming and cursing all the time. I refused to sign a
confession they had written. The interrogator asked the guards to come
and beat me while my hands were cuffed and legs tied. He asked me
again to sign and I refused and he told me that he would send me to
the cells for a longer period and that I would be prevented from
seeing anybody. I spent three days in the cells Al Jalami. After that,
they returned me to Petah Tikva.
I refused to sign a confession again. I spent another 5 days inside a
cell. I then confessed. I told him that I had planted the bomb they
had been telling me about in interrogation. It wasn't a bomb, it was a
fire extinguisher. The papers that I signed were in Hebrew and I
didn't understand what it was written in these papers. My confession
was as a result of the pressure of putting me in the cells.
During the interrogation period, I didn't see any of my family, my
lawyer or someone from the Red Cross.
Interrogation Methods
Arrest
A sample of statements taken from children being held in Hasharon and
Ofer Prisons during the period January to June 2007, indicate that all
children confessed to the allegations put to them by Israeli military
personnel during a lengthy and violent interrogation period.
Interrogation periods were reported to occur from between 2 hours to
intermittently over three weeks.
Children experienced continuous beating during the arrest and transfer
to an interrogation centre. The majority of children were arrested at
their homes in the dark hours of the early morning by armed Israeli
military personnel who used forced entry on and the conducted a search
of the family home. One child reported that bullets were shot at the
house during entry.
Many children reported that they were cursed during the arrest
process. A small percentage of children were arrested at other public
locations and some reported that they were arrested at or on their way
to school.
Transfer
All children reported that they were handcuffed and blindfolded when
arrested, and the majority reported that their ankles were shackled
when being transferred inside military jeeps. The majority of children
reported being kicked, slapped and/or beaten repeatedly by military
personnel using their hands or guns, in these jeeps, during the
transfer to an interrogation center.
Interrogation
Children reported that they were subjected to the following forms of
abuse by Israeli military personnel during the interrogation process:
Being left outside in the cold, or inside in cold temperatures,
handcuffed and seated for several hours;
Being held in solitary confinement,;
Being beaten with use of hands by different soldiers at different
points during the interrogation;
Being slapped by an interrogator;
Not being fed for up to 12 hours;
Being yelled at continuously and cursed for several hours;
Not being allowed to shower or change clothes for several days;
Being threatened with sexual abuse or touched inappropriately;
Being threatened with:- being beaten further, family members being
beaten, being interrogated for a longer period, a family member being
imprisoned for a long time or house demolition.
Case Study
Name: Ahmad Al Makhmour
Aged: 16 years
Place of Residence: Al Dheisha Refugee Camp, Bethlehem
Al Moscibiyya Interrogation Centre, 14 March 2007
I was arrested on the street near Rachel's Tomb by the Israeli Army.
They claimed that I had thrown stones and Molotov Cocktails. When they
arrested me they severely beat me. They threatened to arrest and also
beat my mother and sister. They tried to pull down my pants when I was
on the ground during the arrest.
After that, they transferred me to the checkpoint at the entrance to
Bethlehem. Then they transferred me in a private vehicle to the
Russian Compound (Al Moscobiyya).
I handed over my possessions there and they took photos of me and a
doctor examined me because I suffered from an injury to the shoulder
from the beatings during the arrest.
I was then interrogated for stone throwing and making and throwing
Molotov Cocktails. During the interrogation, they beat me and they hit
my head against the wall. I asked the interrogator to call my family
but he refused. The interrogation lasted continuously from my arrival
at the Russian Compound to midnight.
There were two interrogators and they were speaking Arabic. After the
interrogation finished they asked me to sign papers. I didn't
understand what I was signing. I later found out it was a confession
to stone throwing and Molotov cocktails.
After that, I was transferred to the rooms and there were 6 other
prisoners inside the room with me. There is a bed for each prisoner. I
haven't been allowed to change my clothes. There are no windows in the
room. We are allowed a shower once a day. There are no towels or soap
and there is a smell of sewage in the cell.
II The Prosecution of Palestinian Children
Palestinian children living in the West Bank, who are arrested by the
Israeli military are prosecuted in the same jurisdiction as
Palestinian adults. There is no specialist branch of the Israeli
Military Courts for Palestinian child political prisoners.
As for adults, Military Order 378 lists the offences that are
prosecuted in the court and sets out the court rules and procedure. In
terms of specific legal provisions that relate to Palestinian
children, Military Order 132 defines a "child" as a person under the
age of 16 and outlines the range of the term of imprisonment that
apply when Palestinian children are sentenced. This range is set out
in the Order according to age group and type of charge. A judge in the
Military Court has complete discretion to determine the length of the
term of imprisonment within these ranges.
Under Military order 132, children under the age of 12 cannot be
imprisoned, however this does not mean they cannot be arrested. The
usual practice is that children under the age of 12 who are arrested,
are only ever detained by military personnel for a number of hours and
then released to their parents subject to the payment of a fine.
Children between the ages of 12 and 14 who are convicted of an offence
under Military Order 378 are imprisoned for periods of up to 6 months.
Children between the ages of 14 and 16 are imprisoned for periods of
up to 12 months for offences that attract a penalty of 5 years
imprisonment or less. This means that children over the age of 14 can
receive terms of imprisonment of up to 25 years or life, for certain
security offences.
Sentencing
The offences for which Palestinian children and adults are arrested
and then prosecuted in the Israeli military courts, are listed under
Military Order 378, and each offence is then followed by the maximum
sentence that the respective offence attracts.
The following is an example of some of the offences and penalties set
out in Military Order 378:
Causing Intentional Death
Death or another sentence, as ordered by the Court
The death penalty does not apply to persons under 18 years
Manslaughter
Life imprisonment
Damage to IDF Facility
Life imprisonment, or as ordered by the Court
Possessing Firearms/explosives
Life imprisonment, or as ordered by the Court
Violations against public order
Life Imprisonment or as ordered by the Court
Throwing of Objects Including a Rock
10 to 20 years imprisonment
Malicious Damage to Property
10 years imprisonment
Harm, Insults and Threats towards IDF
10 years imprisonment
Possession of a Knife
5 years imprisonment
Assault
5 years imprisonment
Assault With Injury
7 years imprisonment
Assault In Company
10 years imprisonment
Assault against IDF personnel or authority
10 years imprisonment
Apart from Military Order 132 discussed above, there are no formal
sentencing guidelines in relation to children, nor is it clear, from
judicial remarks made in sentence hearings, what mitigating factors
are taken into account during the sentencing process, or whether or
not case law and precedent have influenced the sentence outcome.
According to principals of juvenile justice, the factors that should
be taken into account in sentencing children are: youth;
vulnerability; immaturity; the need for rehabilitation; imprisonment
as a last resort; that a child's normal growth and development
including the requirement that education not be disturbed; and that a
child should not being separated from his/her family.
However, sentencing results for Palestinian children convicted of
offences under Military Order 378, do not reflect these principals or
the ideals of the United Convention on the Rights of the Child, to
which Israel is a signatory. Sentencing is a product of arbitrary
judicial discretion (which is a political process) within the limits
of the maximum terms of imprisonment a particular offence attracts.
The result is that nearly all Palestinian children who are prosecuted
in the military courts are imprisoned. There are no alternative
sentencing options that are conducive to rehabilitation of the child.
Breakdown of DCI Closed Cases by Sentence during January to June 2007
Sentence
Number
Percentage
Up to 6 months
56
40.6%
6 to 12 Months
17
12.3%
12 months to 3 Years
48
34.8%
3 Years or more
17
12.3%
Total
138
100%
Case Study
DCI Palestine lawyer, Iyad Misk, who regularly appears at Ofer
Military Court in the West Bank, entered into a plea bargain with the
prosecutor and reached an agreement as to a particular sentencing result.
The children, Ahmed Ibrahim Darraj and Feras Ibrahim Samour Ismar were
accused of throwing stones at military vehicles in February and
January 2007. Both children were 13 years old when they were arrested,
had never been arrested before and had no prior convictions.
The plea bargain reached was 21 days imprisonment, a suspended
sentence to be set at the discretion of the sentencing judge and a
fine of 1000NIS (240 USD) each.
In sentencing the children, the presiding Judge remarked as follows:-
The accused were invited to admit, according to their confessions,
that they threw stones.
The original indictment included 4 offences however, following an
agreement between the prosecutor and defense counsel, the offences
were reduced to 2 charges.
In this context, they have both asked me to sentence each accused to
21 days imprisonment with a suspended sentence according to my
discretion and a 1000 NIS fine.
The two parties substantiated this agreement by pointing out that the
two accused persons have no criminal records, they confessed at the
first opportunity thereby saving the court time, and their young ages.
I admit that I am hesitant to confirm this agreement by way of
sentence. It is clear that the prosecution has not taken into account,
the level of punishment that these types of offences attract. A few
minutes ago, I finalized similar charges as a result of a similar
agreement or deal between the defense and the prosecution. In that
case, the accused was charged with one count of stone throwing and was
sentenced to 18 months imprisonment. The only difference between the
two cases, is that in the first case the accused was 17 years of age
and these children are 13 years of age.
Furthermore, in the first file, the prosecutor informed the Court that
there was a problem with the evidence in that case which lead to an
agreement. In this case, there are two charges after modification and
there is no problem with the evidence. The offence was repeated more
than once by both accused.
The court is responsible for the protection and interests of the
community and as such I see that the agreement is very lenient on the
accused without any reason.
I am therefore very hesitant to confirm the agreement. However, I
should clarify that Supreme Court decisions that apply to this area
set out that I should confirm plea agreements.
I will confirm the deal but I must say that it is on the far lower
scale of punishment that applies to this offence.
I sentence you to 21 days imprisonment and 1000 NIS or 1 month further
imprisonment and an additional 4 month suspended sentence.
Court Procedure and Law
As at end of June 2007, 224 children were being detained pending trial
or sentence in the Israeli Military Courts. Israeli Military Courts
are located at either Salem, in the North of Israel, or at Ofer
Military Court near Ramallah in the West Bank.
In the Israeli Military Courts, the Israeli Evidence Law and Criminal
Procedural Law apply to the conduct of the prosecution process.
Israeli Criminal Law does not apply. Where Israeli Criminal Law in the
Israeli domestic jurisdiction defines criminal offences, the elements
that constitute those offences and the maximum statutory penalty,
Military Order 378 defines the offences for which children can be
prosecuted in the Military Court. It also sets out maximum sentences.
It does not set out the elements of those offences. This allows
arresting, prosecuting and judicial military personnel, a wide
discretion in deciding what actions constitute an offence.
Military Order 378 does not prescribe any statutory legal defenses.
Common Law legal defenses or defenses that may be available under Case
Law are also not available.
Under Israeli Evidence Law, the burden is on the defense to establish
that a confession is unreliable evidence. The defense must establish
that an accused was in an altered state of mind when making a
confession, as a result of torture or ill treatment.
Confessional evidence of other children is regularly used in the
arrest and prosecution of Palestinian children. Such evidence is given
much weight by arresting and judicial officers who are members of the
Israeli Military themselves. There are no cautionary guidelines taken
as to the admission of corroborative evidence by other children
As a result, the majority of cases involve a plea bargaining exercise
between the prosecutor and defense counsel. 100% of Palestinian
children charged fro security offences in the military courts and
represented by DCI during the reported period, were convicted and
sentenced to terms of imprisonment.
Less than 1% of children represented by DCI in the first half of 2007
received bail pending the determination of their cases. About 8% (24
out of 200 cases) of children were arrested, interrogated for between
8 days and up to 2 months without charge. Some of these children were
held for 8 days and were not interrogated. These children were not
detained under administrative detention orders.
Nature of Cases Conducted and Closed by DCI Palestine Lawyers In First
Half of 2007
Lower Military Court (Charge Matters)
138
Military Court of Appeal
6
Administrative Detention
3
Parole (2/3 rd Imprisonment Completed)
4
Extension of detention orders (for interrogation purposes) where
children released without charge
24
Israeli civil criminal jurisdiction
4
Cases not finalized by DCI
20
Total
199
Breakdown of Closed Cases by Geographic Origin of Child
Region
Number
Percentage
Jenin
22
12.55%
Nablus
56
32.0%
Tulkarem/Qalqilya
22
12.55%
Total North West Bank
100
57.1%
Ramallah
18
10.3%
Jerusalem and surrounding villages
12
6.9%
Total Central West Bank
30
17.2%
Bethlehem
9
5.1%
Hebron
36
20.6%
Total South West Bank
45
25.7%
Total
175
100%
Breakdown of Closed Cases by Age
Age Group
Number
Percentage
12 to 14 years
24
13.7%
15 to 16 years
56
32.0%
17 years
95
54.3%
Total
175
100%
Charges
Indictments in the Israeli Military Court are drafted following the
obtaining of a confession or a corroborative confession and are not
based on evidence gathered during a forensic investigation of an
offence. This illustrates how confessional evidence is legitimatized
by the Court. Furthermore, an indictment is not based on the elements
of an offence or specific factual details such as dates, times, and
locations, but on details obtained from a child's confession,
particularly issues of intent to kill or injure, without which, many
activities undertaken by Palestinian children would not be offences.
The following is an example of an indictment and summary of the
offence, for the offence of stone throwing which falls under the
category of offences known as “Throwing an Object including a Rockâ€
under Military Order 378:
Throwing an object at a person or property with the intent of harming
the person or damaging the property, is an offence against Article
53(a) (2) of Military Order 378.
“ The accused is charged with throwing stones, an offence under
Article 53(a)(2) of Military Order 378, Security Order for Judea and
Samariah 1970.
In February 2007, or thereabouts, in the area of Khader Village or
nearby, the accused threw stones towards a person or property in order
to harm that person or damage the property.
During the time mentioned above, in the area known as Rachel's Tomb,
or nearby, the accused threw a number of stones towards Israeli Border
Police with the intention to harm those persons
Evidence: 4 Interrogation Affidavits of the Accused
2) Palestinian civilians, names withheld
Break Down of Closed Cases by Nature of Charge*
Name of Charge
Number
Percentage
Stone Throwing
36
26.1%
Molotov
17
12.3%
Attempt Murder
4
2.9%
Membership in Palestinian Political Organisation
7
5.1%
Throwing/Possessing Bomb
14
10.1%
Conspiracy To Suicide Bomb/Murder
37
26.8%
Shooting (But Not Killing)
6
4.3%
Helping Wanted Persons
4
2.9%
Possess Weapon
10
7.2%
Enter Israel Without Permit/Refused Entry Into Israel
3
2.3%
Total
138
100%
Case Study
Name: Tahani Bin Oudi
Age: 16 years old
Place of Residence: Nablus Region
Charge: Possession of Knife
Tahani Bin Oudi was on a school excursion the day before her arrest.
She had taken a fruit knife with her on the excursion to cut her
fruit. Her mother, the next day, had a medical appointment in Nablus
and Tahani traveled to see her mother there. When she arrived at the
checkpoint she was searched and the knife was found in her bag. In
fear, she ran and was shot by the Israeli military personnel at the
checkpoint. She was shot in her leg. An ambulance was called and was
taken to hospital after which she was taken to Telmond Prison.
She was then taken to Court. The prosecutor opposed bail but she was
granted bail for 6000NIS and had 72 hours to lodge the bail sum. Her
family had difficulties obtaining the money.
She spent 9 days in prison before she was sentenced and released.
There were many court appearances and on 10 July 2007 she was
sentenced to a fine of 2000NIS.
IDF personnel witnesses did not appear on two occasions when they had
been ordered to appear at her trial.
DCI Lawyer, Adnan Al Rhabi appeared for Tahani.
This is in breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention to which the State
of Israel is a signatory
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