| Submit your comments on this article |
| Israel-Palestine-Jordan |
| East Jerusalem lawyers jailed for acting as Hamas messengers |
| 2016-03-08 |
| [IsraelTimes] Brother and sister Medhat and Shireen Issawi to be imprisoned for eight and four years, respectively Two East Jerusalem lawyers were handed prison sentences on Monday for relaying messages between Paleostinian terrorist groups in Gazoo and security detainees in Israeli prisons. Medhat Issawi, 42, and his sister Shireen Issawi, 37, were sentenced to eight and four years, respectively, by the Jerusalem District Court. They were charged in 2014 for conveying messages to faceless myrmidons in prison, and were tossed in the clink You have the right to remain silent... along with four other attorneys earlier that year by the Shin Bet security service and Israel Police. They two, who have a law practice in the city’s Isawiya neighborhood, are accused of taking advantage of lawyer-client confidentiality permitted by Israeli authorities to act as couriers between Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... , and Paleostinians incarcerated by Israel. The lawyers allegedly transmitted instructions for hunger strikes and details of prisoner releases, and were paid NIS 500-700 ($144-$200) per message. Some of the communications were conveyed to Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives abroad. The messages included details related to the finances of running Gazoo organizations, the logistics of hunger strikes, identifying which prisoners were to be released in the Gilad Shalit deal, and organizing support for Khaled Mashaal to lead Hamas. Shalit, an Israeli soldier captured by Hamas during a raid into Israel in 2006, was eventually released in 2011 in exchange for over 1,000 Paleostinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |