The Israeli District Court on Friday morning indicted seven elderly Palestinian men of what it called “joining a hostile organization,” for their activities, nonviolently resisting the provocative invasions conducted by settlers into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

The indictments were filed against:

Sa’adi Rajabi;
Anwar al-Qaaq;
‘Adli Abu Ermeila;
Mohammad Taher Arafa;
Jamal Natsha;
Khader Abu Sneina.
On May 17th, the Israeli Court will be holding a hearing into the indictments.

Furthermore, it also decided to prevent the men from entering Jerusalem’s Old City and the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound until that date.

On April 14th, according to the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS), fourteen Palestinian elderly men were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) across the occupied East Jerusalem (including these seven facing indictments).

At the time, PPS stated that the IOF kidnapped:

Sa’id Awad Samrein, 70, Methqal Fayez al-Qaaq, 70, Omar Abed Samrein, 59, Taher Salah Arafa, 63, Mousa al-Joulani, 63, and Tawfiq Gheith, 60; all from the neighborhoods of ath-Thoury and al-Abbasiyya, Ras al-‘Amoud and the Central Neighborhood in Silwan.

Residents Na’im Syouri, 60, Mustafa Mohammad Salfiti, 67, and Omar Hasan, 45, were kidnapped from their homes in Jerusalem’s Old City.

Nabil Sharif, 70, Adel Abu Ermeila, 68, and Omar Obeido, 60, were kidnapped in Beit Hanina neighborhood.

Also in Jerusalem, Rebhi Ghosha, 63, Wisam Rajabi, 62, Sufian Jadallah, 50, and Akram Shorafa, 45 were kidnapped.
  Source: PNN