Terrorist israel sentences Palestinian MP to 25 months in jail

A Palestinian lawmaker, who had been under the Tel Aviv regime’s so-called administrative detention since 2013, has been sentenced to 25 months in prison by an Israeli court.

Sixty four-year-old Mohammed Abu Teir’s detention had been extended several times.

Back in 2010, Abu Teir and a number of other Palestinian lawmakers were arrested in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) after Israel revoked their residency permits there. Abu Teir, also a senior Hamas member, was forced into exile in the West Bank city of Ramallah afterward.

Palestinian officials say the Israeli ruling is in line with Tel Aviv’s plans to drive Palestinians out of al-Quds in a bid to Judaize the city.

On Tuesday, chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat condemned Israeli threats to expel the Palestinians living in al-Quds from their home city.

“Israel’s policy of coercive deportation, which has affected five citizens, is illegal in the first place, and is nothing but a consolidation of Israel’s policy of ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians, especially in Jerusalem,” Erekat said.

Israel has tried over the past decades to change the demographic makeup of al-Quds by constructing illegal settlements, destroying historical sites and expelling the local Palestinian population.