Israeli military court holds in absentia hearing session to extend detention of wounded Palestinian girl

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club has claimed that the Israeli occupation authorities were scheduled to hold a hearing in absentia on Sunday at the Israeli military court in Ofer to extend the detention of a 15-year-old wounded Palestinian girl. The NGO named the child as Natalie Shokhah from Ramon, near Ramallah.

The human rights group pointed out that Shokhah is still being held in the Israeli Shaare Zedek Medical Centre in Jerusalem, in the heart and lung ward. Sources said that the NGO’s lawyer was prevented from visiting the child in the hospital when he tried to meet her on Saturday. The authorities said that an order banning Shokhah from meeting with her lawyer “is still in force”.

The Israeli occupation forces shot Natalie Shokhah during an alleged stabbing of Israeli soldiers south-west of Ramallah last Thursday. No soldiers were injured during the “attack”. Tasnim Halabi Al-Khatib, 16, was with Shokhah at the time and was arrested by the Israelis.