Her CRIME: Having a Knife

VIDEO & PICS: A Girl, Youngest Palestinian Prisoner Freed from Zionist Jail

Mon Apr 25, 2016 11:43:26

Youngest Palestinian Prisoner has released, she is a 12-year-old girl who had been jailed after she was arrested near a Jewish illegal settlement because she carrying a knife.

Dima al-Wawi spent more than two months in prison. The youngster was handed over to Palestinian authorities at Tulkarem crossing point into the northern West Bank. She lives in family home near Hebron in the south of the territory.

She was arrested, wearing her school uniform, on February 9 at the entrance to a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank.

Under a plea bargain with Israeli military prosecutors, Wawi pleaded guilty to attempted murder and possession of a knife and was sentenced to four months in an Israeli prison and a further six-week suspended sentence.

"'She is the youngest Palestinian girl ever imprisoned,' her lawyer Tariq Barghouth posted on Facebook. According to Israeli military law, minors from age 12 can be charged, uniquely in the world according to United Nations children’s agency UNICEF."

Israel is currently holding about 450 Palestinian minors, around 100 of whom are under 16. 

Dima was greeted by relatives at her family's house in Halhoul, a village near Hebron. Relatives decorated the house with balloons and posters.

Dima said: 'I am happy to be out. Prison is bad. During my time in prison I missed my classmates and my friends and family.'

 

Her imprisonment put Israel's military justice system in a tough spot because of her young age.

"Israel captured the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East war, and Palestinian residents there are subject to a system of military law that can sentence suspects as young as 12 to prison."

By contrast, Israeli settlers in the West Bank, as well as Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel, are subject to Israeli civil law, which does not allow anyone under 14 to go to jail.

The incident came amid 7 month Israelis violence at least 190 Palestinians have died from Israeli fire. Israel says most were attackers, and the rest died in clashes with Israeli security forces.

Many of the Palestinian victims (who Zionist Regime Call them Palestinian Knife Attackers) have been teenagers or in their early 20s.

Palestinian officials say it is the result of despair living under Israeli occupation and frustration over the prospect of ever reaching statehood.

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