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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 475

Issam Akel

Issam Akel (Screenshot/Wattan News Agency)
January 17, 2019, 9:50 pm
PA said to deport Palestinian-American it jailed for selling land to Jews
According to TV report, US and Israeli pressure leads to Issam Akel being handed over to Americans less than 3 weeks after he was sentenced to life in prison
By ToI Staff and Adam Rasgon
Family members of Samih Nasser al-Din protesting in Ramallah. (Screenshot: Wattan News Agency)
January 15, 2019, 1:04 pm
PA hands over Palestinian Jerusalem resident held for alleged role in murder
After Sameh Nasser al-Din spends 9 months in custody, PA police says it received ‘ necessary pledges’ he will be tried in Israeli courts over March 2018 killing of man in Ramallah
By Adam Rasgon
Issam Akel (Screenshot/Wattan News Agency)
January 2, 2019, 11:55 pm
PA said seeking to deport Palestinian-American jailed for selling land to Jews
‘He has become a burden,’ Israeli TV quotes a Palestinian official as saying of Issam Akel, who was sentenced to life in prison and will reportedly be sent to the US
By ToI Staff and Adam Rasgon
Palestinian police officers gesture to journalists as they display three Palestinian men, standing against the wall at right, for the media after they were convicted by a tribunal of collaborating with Israel in the West Bank city of Hebron, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008. (AP/Nasser Shiyoukhi)
December 31, 2018, 7:51 pm
Family surprised by life sentence for Palestinian-American over land sale
Jalal Akel firmly denies his son sold land to Jewish Israelis in Jerusalem; PA official says Jerusalem man can appeal ruling
By Adam Rasgon
Issam Akel (Screenshot/Wattan News Agency)
December 31, 2018, 2:20 pm
PA court sentences Palestinian-American to life for attempting land sale to Jews
Issam Akel, a resident of East Jerusalem, holds a blue Israeli national identification card; US ambassador has called for his release
By Adam Rasgon
Palestinian Authority security forces touring Israeli-controlled Hebron in uniform. (Wafa)
December 23, 2018, 7:56 pm
Palestinian Authority boasts it ‘thwarted’ major land sales to Jews in Jerusalem
Abbas’s troops said to arrest 44 on suspicion of attempting to deal away 740 acres in East Jerusalem and West Bank, with three sentenced to hard labor
By Jacob Magid
Illustrative photo. (Nati Shohat/FLash90)
December 13, 2018, 12:31 pm
Palestinian recounts torture by PA for helping Israel to thwart terror attacks
In rare Knesset discussion, Walid says he and other suspected collaborators were forced to carry heavy cinder blocks; official says government seeking to up pressure on Ramallah
By ToI Staff
A screen capture of video from social media said to show the scene of the deadly shooting of Ahmed Salama in the central Arab Israel town of Jaljulia on December 7, 2018. (Screen capture: Facebook)
December 8, 2018, 9:21 pm
Palestinian killed in Israel after accusations of selling land to Jews — report
Ahmed Salama was said to have denied involvement in West Bank land sales to Israelis, a capital offense under Palestinian Authority law
By ToI Staff
An Israeli policeman watches over the Palestinian Authority's Jerusalem governor, Adnan Ghaith, during a court appearance following his arrest in Jerusalem, November 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
December 2, 2018, 2:50 pm
Court orders release of Jerusalem Palestinian Authority official
Judges also cut loose 9 East Jerusalem residents arrested last week on suspicion of supporting and serving in PA security forces
By Adam Rasgon
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman speaks to members of the Christian press, during an event in Jerusalem, October 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 28, 2018, 3:25 pm
US envoy tells PA to free US citizen arrested for selling Old City home to Jews
David Friedman says Issam Akel’s 2-month detention over Jerusalem property deal is ‘antithetical’ to US values and ‘peaceful coexistence’
By ToI Staff
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