The young girl is accused of taking part in a road-blocking, and of refusing a policewoman's order to move away from the road. She allegedly tried to prevent her friends from being arrested, and answered the policewoman in an insolent manner.
The police asked the court for her incarceration until the end of the proceedings against her. The District Court judge turned down this request, but the police appealed the decision to the Supreme Court. The girl's lawyer, Atty. Moti Levi, proposed to the Court that she be placed under house arrest at either her mother's home or her father's; the parents are separated.
Supreme Court Justice Ayala Procaccia ruled, however, that neither of those two alternatives was acceptable, and that the only possibility at present is for her to remain in jail. The judge ruled that her father was disqualified as a guardian for a house-arrestee because he "did not fulfill the task placed upon him" of preventing his daughter from engaging once again in anti-disengagement activity of this nature.
Judge Procaccia further ruled that the girl's mother is similarly not acceptable because she lives in Gush Katif, which is given to "severe unrest and social tension connected with the disengagement."
The alternative to jail-time, the judge wrote, "must be in an area far from the center of the existing social tensions, where the girl can remain until her trial is ended, or until calm is restored. If such an alternative is not found, the girl will remain in prison until her trial is completed."
Two other girls, aged 13 and almost 16, are also subject to the same conditions, and are in prison until the end of the legal proceedings against them. Moshe, father of one of the girls, told Arutz-7, "I came from Russia, and I feel that I've returned to there. Even our lawyer, who is totally left-wing, says that he cannot believe what he is seeing. I feel like our daughters have been kidnapped. Even the District Court judge said that it's ridiculous to throw a girl into prison for weeks or months merely because she talked not nicely to a policewoman."
Procaccia said, "The message must be made clear that the law will be enforced, at times of calm or at times of crisis, for minors or adults."
Moshe said that he and the other parents have begun a campaign to "teach the public of the injustice that is going on, with the hope that this will change something."
The police asked the court for her incarceration until the end of the proceedings against her. The District Court judge turned down this request, but the police appealed the decision to the Supreme Court. The girl's lawyer, Atty. Moti Levi, proposed to the Court that she be placed under house arrest at either her mother's home or her father's; the parents are separated.
Supreme Court Justice Ayala Procaccia ruled, however, that neither of those two alternatives was acceptable, and that the only possibility at present is for her to remain in jail. The judge ruled that her father was disqualified as a guardian for a house-arrestee because he "did not fulfill the task placed upon him" of preventing his daughter from engaging once again in anti-disengagement activity of this nature.
Judge Procaccia further ruled that the girl's mother is similarly not acceptable because she lives in Gush Katif, which is given to "severe unrest and social tension connected with the disengagement."
The alternative to jail-time, the judge wrote, "must be in an area far from the center of the existing social tensions, where the girl can remain until her trial is ended, or until calm is restored. If such an alternative is not found, the girl will remain in prison until her trial is completed."
Two other girls, aged 13 and almost 16, are also subject to the same conditions, and are in prison until the end of the legal proceedings against them. Moshe, father of one of the girls, told Arutz-7, "I came from Russia, and I feel that I've returned to there. Even our lawyer, who is totally left-wing, says that he cannot believe what he is seeing. I feel like our daughters have been kidnapped. Even the District Court judge said that it's ridiculous to throw a girl into prison for weeks or months merely because she talked not nicely to a policewoman."
Procaccia said, "The message must be made clear that the law will be enforced, at times of calm or at times of crisis, for minors or adults."
Moshe said that he and the other parents have begun a campaign to "teach the public of the injustice that is going on, with the hope that this will change something."