On Sunday, a Palestinian Cabinet minister said that Israel won't permit Palestinian detainees, held at Israeli jails to vote in their country's upcoming presidential elections. Hisham Abdel Razek, the Palestinian minister for prisoner affairs, said that Israel told him that the Palestinian prisoners won't be allowed to vote in the Jan. 9 elections to choose a successor for the late Yasser Arafat. Currently Israel holds about 7,000 Palestinians in jails and military prisons The Palestinians will go to Israel's Supreme Court on Monday to appeal the decision by Israel's public security minister, Gideon Ezra, Abdel Razek said. Officials from the Public Security Ministry couldn't be reached for comment. "There is nothing in the Israeli or the Palestinian law that bars prisoners from taking part in the elections," Abdel Razek said. Israeli prisoners are allowed to vote in the Israeli elections. Israel previously claimed that it will do everything possible to ensure that the Palestinians can hold free and credible elections.