The girls were arrested after they clashed with a group of Arab olive harvesters in the Shilo-Sinjil area. Unlike scuffles that take place elsewhere, the six girls were arrested - none of the Arabs were - and the police "misused their authority" by keeping them in jail for so long, their lawyer said.
Originally arrested on Nov. 13, the girls were originally kept in prison for four days, despite two court orders for their release.
The day after they were finally released, they returned to court for a hearing on the Prosecution's request to incarcerate them once again until the end of the legal proceedings in their case. The judge acceded to the request, and placed the young girls into prison once again.
The girls' lawyer, Ephraim Katzir of the Honenu legal organization, filed an appeal, which was rejected by Jerusalem District Court Judge Yosef Shapira on Tuesday. Shapira did, however, order the consideration of a form of house arrest for the six.
However, to the girls' consternation, a judge today set the date for presenting the alternatives for Dec. 5 - eleven days from now.
A Honenu official said that the judge made this decision after seeing that the proposals were not ready today. "It's clearly not realistic to have the alternatives ready in just two days," he said, "but neither is there any reason to wait two weeks."
Honenu is planning to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court as early as today, and hopes that the appeal will be heard tomorrow, Friday.
Aside from the six girls, only two other Disengagement-related arrestees remain in prison. One of them is the sister of one of the six, who refuses to recognize the non-Halakhic [Jewish legal] court's right to punish her, and Daniel Pinner of Kfar Tapuach, who was arrested in June for allegedly shooting an Arab on the Gush Katif beach.
Honenu is planning a gathering of all those who were indicted for Disengagement protest-related activities in the past half-year in the Old City of Jerusalem tonight. Among other things, legal and public strategy and advice will be discussed and proffered.
Haaretz reported today that Honenu is "trying to raise money for Yitzhak Rabin's assassin, Yigal Amir, and his wife, Larissa Trimbobler." Honenu director Shmuel Medad explained to Arutz-7, however, that this is not true.
"We are not 'trying to raise money,'" he said, "but rather, if someone wants to donate, and specifies that his money is to be used for Amir, we have a special fund set up by which this can be done. Even the Civil Liberties Association of Israel has taken action on behalf of Amir and Trimbobler's human rights."
Trimbobler told Haaretz that the money was to be used to pay a lawyer to represent her and Amir in their legal battles, and is aimed at "stopping political persecution of Yigal Amir and the denial of his basic rights; stopping the perverse vengeance of the establishment; and carrying out a legal battle for basic rights."