Posted on 01/25/2018 11:18:58 AM PST by JOHN ADAMS
JERUSALEM, January 25, 2018 (WAFA) – The Israeli High Court rejected on Thursday an appeal by the family of Isra Jaabis, 32, a mother of a baby child and a resident of Jabal al-Mukkaber neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem, to reduce her sentence and have an early release, according to Isra’s sister Muna.
Jaabis was sentenced in November 2016 to serve 11 years in prison after she was charged with attempting to blow up an Israeli army checkpoint outside Jerusalem in October 2015. Jaabis was the only person injured in the explosion in her car that occurred away from the checkpoint.
Muna Jaabis told WAFA that the Israeli High Court rejected her family’s appeal for the release of her sister on grounds of her deteriorating health condition since she was seriously injured in the explosion and needs medical treatment outside the prison. She said the family presented the court with all kinds of medical documents to support its claim for early release on medical grounds but the court still refused to reduce her sentence.
She said the family is going to appeal now to the High Court to at least allow a specialized surgeon and psychiatrist to treat her in prison.
Jaabis, who is married to a Palestinian from Jericho, had a gas cylinder in her car when it blew up, apparently accidently, before she had arrived at the checkpoint to the east of Jerusalem. Her family said at the time that she was moving her stuff from Jericho to a new place in Jerusalem when a gas cylinder she had in the car blew up by accident. The army, however, decided otherwise and said Jaabis was intending to blow up the checkpoint.
The Jerusalem resident was seriously hurt in the accident with third degrees burns on 60 percent of her body and face. She also lost eight fingers.
During her detention, Jaabis did not get proper medical treatment, says her family and activists, and therefore her condition has worsened. Activists launched a campaign to demand her release to get badly needed medical treatment.
According to her family, their daughter’s health situation has deteriorated. She suffers from constant pain and fever and that she needs years of treatment and physical and psychological rehabilitation.
Jaabis sent an urgent message from her prison cell three weeks ago complaining of pain and ache all over her body and of medical negligence in prison.
She said she is suffering from cramps in her hands and feet, which prevent her from doing the most basic things of life and make her feel humiliated and ashamed because she is in constant need of assistance from her cellmates.
"I urgently need surgery to treat these cramps so that I can perform my simple private needs alone. The [prison] administration is always procrastinating and they keep telling me since my arrest that the surgery will be next month but nothing happens and my situation worsens day after day," she wrote.
She needs medical care because she tried to blow up some soldiers, and THAT's why she should be released early from prison??
These are the people whose US funding President Trump said he would cut off if they don't get serious about living peacefully next to the Jews. I'm not holding my breath.
Hope it suffers for years.....
Kind of reminds you of the kids who killed their parents and then pleaded for clemency because they were orphans, doesn’t it?
11 years in prison after she was charged with attempting to blow up an Israeli army checkpoint outside Jerusalem in October 2015
Incredibly lenient sentence.
I urgently need surgery to treat these cramps
LOL!!! Hope she has to eat with her mouth in the bowl like the animal that she is.
They should have treated her equally as a male terrorist and let her die inside the car. None of this ongoing drama crap would exist.
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