[Pnews] Israeli committee pushes re-sentencing of Palestinians re-arrested despite Shalit deal

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  Israeli committee pushes re-sentencing of Shalit deal detainees

July 21, 2015 6:47 P.M. (Updated: July 21, 2015 6:47 P.M.)
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BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- An Israeli military committee has recommended 
re-sentencing nearly all the Palestinians re-detained by Israeli forces 
last summer despite their release in the 2011 Shalit deal, Israeli media 
reported late on Monday.The Hebrew-language Maariv newspaper reported 
that the committee argued for 15 prisoners to be given life sentences 
and three to be sentenced to 20 years, all of which exceed or double 
sentences held by the detainees prior to their release in 2011.The 
committee reportedly said that 13 detainees should return to their 
original sentences -- ranging between 10 and 20 years -- while 15 others 
would be given sentences of up to 10 years.Detainees threatened with 
re-sentencing make up the majority of the more than 50 Palestinians who 
were re-detained in the summer of 2014 during a detention campaign 
referred to as "Operation Brother's Keeper," in which Israeli forces 
detained 800 Palestinians without charge or trial and killed nine 
civilians.The campaign was allegedly carried out in search of three 
missing teenage settlers and left hundreds of Palestinians detained in 
Israeli jails, including several Hamas-affiliated members of the 
Palestinian Legislative Council.Hamas leader Izzat al-Rishq wrote in a 
post on his Facebook page that Monday's proposal to double the sentences 
of some of the detainees freed in the Shalit deal was "new criminality 
that won't bring about security as alleged by Israeli 
leadership."Al-Rishq added that freeing all political prisoners from 
Israeli jails was a top priority of the Hamas movement, referring to the 
nearly 6,000 Palestinians currently held in Israeli jails.The 
Egypt-brokered 2011 agreement between Hamas and Israel led to the 
release of over 1,000 Palestinian detainees in exchange for Israeli 
soldier Gilad Shalit who was held captive by Hamas for five years.At the 
time of their re-arrest last summer, Shalit-deal prisoners released a 
statement contesting Israel's violation of the deal, saying they had 
demonstrated commitment to its terms.
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