One of two settlers suspects held over the murder a Palestinian in the occupied territories was released to house arrest on Tuesday after a court found police do not have enough evidence to keep him in custody. However, the release of Elisha Yered, a former spokesman for the far-right Otzma Yehudit party’s MK Limor Son Har-Melech, was delayed. at the request of the Israel Police, which intends to file a petition against the Jerusalem District Court decision. Har-Melech attended court for the hearing.
Hadash-Ta’al MKs Ayman Odeh and Ahmed Tibi paid a condolence visit on Tuesday to the family of Qosai Jammal Mi’tan in Burqa (Photo: WAFA)
On Tuesday, Hadash-Ta’al MKs Ayman Odeh and Ahmed Tibi paid a condolence visit to the family of the Palestinian 19-year-old, Qosai Jammal Mi’tan, who was shot dead in the village of Burqa on Friday. Odeh said during the visit, “It is the right of our people, like the residents of Burqa and other Palestinian towns, to protect their lands and property from the attacks of the settlers using any means.”
Far-right Israeli lawmakers visited on Sunday a settler charged with the shooting and killing of Mit’an. MKs Tally Gotliv,(Likud) and Zvi Sukkot (Religious Zionism) visited the hospital where suspect Yehiel Indore is being detained after killing the young Palestinian on Friday. The move was condemned by Knesset legal adviser, Sagit Afik, who said that the permission to visit suspects in detention was being given selectively. MKs are barred by law from visiting convicted prisoners and criminal suspects, except when the national security minister grants special permission in order to safeguard police investigations.
The current minister is Itamar Ben-Gvir, a fascist MK and settler activist who has previously been convicted of inciting racism and supporting a terrorist group. Meanwhile, MK Tibi had been waiting for more than two months for permission to visit a Palestinian prisoner, Afik said. It would appear that Gotliv and Sukkot’s requests to see Indore were granted almost immediately.
“Today it was brought to my attention by MKs that requests by coalition MKs to visit prisoners, and even those who have been detained for questioning are approved very quickly, even within few hours,” Afik said in a letter to the national security ministry’s legal adviser. “Surely it is appropriate that the ministry’s swift response time, which is welcome in itself, should be uniformly applied to all members of the Knesset,” Afik said.
Tibi requested to visit the Palestinian prisoner Walid Daqqa who was sentenced to life imprisonment for his alleged role in a 1984 kidnapping and murder an Israeli soldier and reportedly is suffering from cancer.
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