RAMALLAH, March 8, 2018 (WAFA) – An Israeli court Thursday ordered release with condition of a Palestinian prisoner after he was re-arrested before walking out of prison on Wednesday, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS).

The Israeli security service arrested Mamoun Farhat, from East Jerusalem, on the day he was going to be released from Naqab desert prison in the south of the country after serving a five-year prison sentence for throwing a Molotov cocktail as Israeli forces in Jerusalem.

PPS attorney Mufeed al-Hajj said the Israel court, which looked in Farhat’s re-arrest case, decided to set him free on condition he does not take part in an rally or demonstration for 180 days.

Hajj said after Farhat’s re-arrest that Israel has been employing the policy or re-arresting prisoners on their release day to deprive their families and friends from celebrating their release.

The court condition will make it very difficult, if not impossible, for Farhat’s family and friends to hold street celebration for his release because the event would be looked at as demonstration or rally and would risk his re-arrest for violating his release condition.

M.K.