Writing on her Facebook page this week, Suheir Farraj talks about the conviction of her son Ismail by an Israeli military judge for the huge crime of belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). The legal status of the PFLP, one of the main factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is confusing. On the one hand, the PFLP through its membership in the PLO has recognized Israel and has ceased its guerrilla activities against Israel. After Oslo, a number of the PFLP’s leadership abroad were allowed to return. PFLP Secretary-General Abu Ali Mustafa was allowed to return by Israel in 1999 only to be assassinated by Israel in August 2001. Israel has never officially taken the PFLP off its list of “terrorist” organizations. So an act as simple as setting up chairs at a PFLP rally at a local Palestinian university, which Ismail is accused of, is considered a crime by the Israeli occupiers. This week, 20 months after being literally kidnapped from his home in the Dheisheh refugee camp within the Bethlehem district in area A, Ismail Farraj, 22, was convicted of membership in a terrorist organization and given the steep sentence of 23 months in jail and a further suspended term of 10 months. Read more: al-monitor/pulse/originals/2013/06/palestinian-prisoners-farraj-israel-occupation.html#ixzz2X64hRlnS
Posted on: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 02:30:42 +0000
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