RAMALLAH, Wednesday, February 13, 2019 (WAFA) – The elderly parents of Assem Barghouti from Kobar village near Ramallah, Omar, 68, and Suhair, 62, are to remain in prison for at least few more days after the Israeli military court postponed their trial scheduled for Wednesday for few days for Omar and one day for Suhair, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS).

Their sons, Assef, 26,  and Mohammad, 17, who were also detained after the Israeli army accused their brother, Assem, 32, and another brother, Saleh, 29, who was killed by the army on December 12 near Ramallah, of attacking and killing Israelis earlier in December, were released this week from prison.

Assem, whom the army accused of shooting and killing two Israeli soldiers near Ramallah a day after his brother Saleh was gunned down in an army ambush after he was alleged to have opened fire and injured seven Israeli settlers near Ramallah on December 9, was arrested in January during an army raid at his hideout near his Kobar hometown.

Omar Barghouti, who spent a total of 26 years in Israeli jails since 1978 between serving prison sentence and administrative detention for resisting the Israeli occupation, was arrested along with his son Assef on December 12 and has been in jail since then.

He was supposed to appear at Ofer military court on Wednesday to hear a ruling regarding his new administrative detention order but the hearing was postponed by 10 days because he was getting physical checkup due to his bad health condition, according to PPS attorney Jawad Boulus.

Suhair Barghouti, who was detained on February 5, also appeared in Ofer military court later in the day, which postponed a ruling on whether to keep her in prison or release her until the next day, Thursday.

Meanwhile, the Barghouti residence in Kobar has been condemned for demolition by the army as a punishment for the sons acts after an Israeli court rejected an appeal against its demolition.

M.K.