Supreme Court Justice Ayala Procaccia decided Friday afternoon to delay the hearing regarding a 14-year-old settler girl who was arrested during scuffles in Hebron. The hearing was not yet rescheduled, but it was expected to take place in the upcoming days. In the meantime, the girl will remain under arrest.
The girl is one of 17 adolescent settler girls who were arrested last week during scuffles in the Avraham Avinu neighborhood of Hebron after throwing stones at soldiers mending the security fence there. The fence, which separates the neighborhood from the Palestinian area of Beit Sharbati, was being reinforced to prevent local settlers from breaking into Palestinian-owned homes there.
Four of the girls remained in custody as they refused to sign documents releasing them to house arrest, claiming they did not recognize the authority of the court system.
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The girl’s father, a well-known right-wing extremist, said upon leaving the courtroom Friday, “The Supreme Court and the State Prosecution are joining forces against the right wing. While murderers and rapists wander around freely, a girl who protested is thrown into jail.”
The 14-year-old girl was arrested with her sister during the violent scuffles and had a remand hearing at the Jerusalem District Court. Police appealed the decision of the District Court, but the appeal was rejected.
Judge Moshe Drori of the District Court in Jerusalem ruled that there was nothing preventing the girl from receiving basic equipment from her parents and remaining under arrest, and ruled that the police should let her receive the items immediately. In addition, the judge authorized the girl to have telephone contact with her parents. However, the police refused to give up its demand to keep the girl in custody and appealed to the Supreme Court. The hearing on the appeal was to take place Friday at noon under Supreme Court Justice Ayala Procaccia, but was delayed.
The girl’s father, a well-known extreme-Right activist, claimed in conversation with Ynet that, “The state is trying to re-educate these girls.” He said he gave his daughter books which were then confiscated by prison wardens at the Naveh Tirza prison. “The Prisons Authority is harassing these girls,” he charged.
Right wing sources expressed fury over the conduct of the prosecution in the case. “What do they want? For a 14-year-old girl to sit in prison or be distanced from her parents for months because of a protest?” they demanded.
“When dealing with Right activists, the prosecution doesn’t stop at the red light and aims to send little girls to jail,” they accused.
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