Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Israeli court postpones decision on sentence of PLC member


Nablus – Ma’an – Israel’s Salem military court postponed a ruling on the fate of Palestinian lawmaker Jamal Tirawi on Wednesday, pushing the next hearing back to 28 December.

Tirawi’s brother Raed, who attended Wednesday’s hearing along with his brother’s wife, said the session lasted eight hours.

He added that the journey to the court from prison and the hearing were difficult for his brother.

A member of President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party from Nablus, Jamal Tirawi was arrested in 2007. He was indicted for organizing the bombing of a Tel Aviv café in 2002 which killed an Israeli woman.