Palestinian gets eight months in jail over anti-Israel posts

‘An Israeli court has sentenced a Palestinian man to eight months in prison on charges of posting comments critical of the Tel Aviv regime’s policies and Zionism on the online social networking service Facebook.

On Tuesday, the Magistrates Court in al-Quds (Jerusalem) handed down the sentence to 28-year-old Sami Jamal Faraj Ideis, a local resident of the Palestinian Shufat neighborhood of East al-Quds, after convicting him of “inciting anti-Jewish violence and supporting terror” on his Facebook page between July and November last year.

The court said Ideis wrote “Death to Israel” on his account on July 5, 2014, and on the same day condemned Israel over its expropriation of Palestinian lands in the occupied West Bank for settlement expansion.’

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