An Israeli military court has sentenced the speaker of the Palestinian parliament to jail for the next six months without trial in the latest of Tel Aviv's detentions of Hamas' lawmakers.
Aziz Dweik, a senior official with the Palestinian resistance movement of Hamas, was arrested at an Army checkpoint near the city of Ramallah in Israel-occupied West Bank last Thursday. On Tuesday, he was issued the detention order 'without charge or legal justification,' according to a statement from his office.
Israeli troops arrested another Hamas' legislator, Abdel Jaber Fuqaha, at his home in Ramallah this week, bringing the total number of the Palestinian Legislative Council's members imprisoned by Tel Aviv to 27. Nineteen members are held without charge or trial .... Read more at http://www.presstv.ir/
