Threatened with 15 years in prison .. The charge of “supporting the resistance” prevents the return of a “colossal” to Jordan after his release from Israeli prisons

AMMAN - The

seventy-year-old Samira Samara waited for the release of her son, Manaf Jbara, 36, from the Israeli occupation prisons, after spending 8 years in captivity, but her joy was not complete after Manaf was denied return to Jordan, because he will be arrested and imprisoned for 15 years in if he returns.

Hajja Samira Samara (Umm Manhal) says, "My joy was not complete with the release of Manaf," and adds to Al Jazeera Net that "the State Security Court sentenced Manaf to 15 years in prison after accusing him of supporting the resistance and communicating with Hamas several years ago, and my son is now threatened if he enters Jordan." Arrested and imprisoned again.

In July 2015, the Jordanian State Military Security Court had sentenced 10 defendants in the case of supporting the Palestinian resistance after convicting them of contacting the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), including the two Jordanian prisoners, Manaf Jabara and Abdullah Al-Zitawi, and each of them was sentenced to 15 years in prison in absentia, given For their presence in Israeli prisons during the trials.

The mother of the prisoner, Manaf Jbara, upon receiving him after his release from prison (Al-Jazeera)

A trek for a 45-minute visit

Hajja Um Manhal (70 years) kept visiting her son Manaf in the Israeli prisons throughout his detention. Eshel prison in the Negev city in southern Palestine.

In addition to the bitterness of the journey and its difficulty for a woman of her age, the Israeli occupation forces prevent the families of the prisoners from embracing them or sitting with them. she said.

After returning to Amman from visiting her son Manaf in Tulkarm and celebrating his release, Umm Manhal intends to "pass the procedures for his retrial before the State Security Court, and to proceed with the litigation procedures publicly, so that we will obtain an amnesty for these rulings," she said.

With the release of the prisoner, Manaf Jabara, from Israeli prisons, there are 17 prisoners who hold Jordanian nationality, including 8 prisoners who are sentenced to life imprisonment, 10 prisoners have spent more than 18 years in prisons, and 34 are missing, according to the Committee on Prisoners and Missing Persons.

A wide campaign of solidarity with the released prisoner Manaf Jabara after his release and deprivation of his return to Jordan (Al-Jazeera)

Narrowing and medical negligence

As the incomplete joy of Umm Manhal, the Jordanian prisoner released from the prisons of the occupation, Manaf Jabara, describes his joy as “incomplete”, because he “left thousands of Palestinian and Jordanian prisoners in the prisons of the occupation.” And the lack of quality food provided to the prisoners, Jabara says.

He added, to Al Jazeera Net, by phone from Tulkarm, that the conditions of prisoners, especially those with high sentences, increased in difficulty and severity after the "Night of Repression" incident in 2019, after the prisoner Islam Wishahi attacked an Israeli officer in the Negev prison and seriously injured him, and as a result the Prison Authority decided to further restrict the prisoners.

Scenes from the release of the freed Jordanian prisoner Manaf Jabara in the village of Kafr Libbd from the Negev prison

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Regarding his sentence in Jordan, Jbara says that “supporting the resistance is a pride and a badge of honor, not a charge,” denying his participation in any “acts that endanger the security and safety of Jordanian society, or manufacturing explosive materials, or disturbing public order,” according to the charges brought against him by State Security Court.

Jabara will meet with lawyers to find out the legal ways to "re-prosecute him before the Jordanian State Security Court, and to reconsider the entire case," and he will remain residing in the West Bank until a political or judicial solution is found to this issue, appealing to Jordan's King Abdullah II to issue a royal pardon in his case.

The prisoner, Manaf Jabara, holds Jordanian citizenship. He was arrested in 2014 during a visit to his family in the West Bank on charges of belonging to Hamas. He was sentenced to 8 years in prison and a fine, and after serving his sentence, he was released from prison last week.

Dozens of the prisoner's relatives receive him in Tulkarm after his release (Al-Jazeera)

A political solution to the issue

The defense lawyer for the defendants in the "supporting the resistance" case, Mustafa Nasrallah, says that as soon as Jabara enters the Jordanian borders, he will "be arrested and transferred to the General Prosecutor of the Intelligence Department or the State Security Court in preparation for the execution of the sentence issued against him."

And given that he is sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison, - Nasrallah adds - the legal procedures allow him to object to the ruling, reopen the case file and proceed with the litigation procedures again, and he remains in custody for about 6 months, and if he is convicted by the judiciary, a decision will be issued to imprison him. From 3 to 5 years, similar to the sentences issued against his colleagues.

Nasrallah indicates in his speech to Al Jazeera Net that "Jabbar advised not to return to Jordan, because the judicial solution is not the only one. There is a political solution that can be reached with Jordanian decision makers, especially since the accused has been tried by the Israeli entity on the same charge, and this can be justified by not His practice is actually a criminal on Jordanian territory, and he has not committed any acts that disturb public order in Jordan, according to the text of the indictment.