Palestine, Feb. 25, 2010 (Pal Telegraph)- The Israeli Jerusalem's Court of Magistrates has sentenced Raed Salah, the prominent Palestinian leader, to prison on January 13, 2010. Salah is one of the most renowned leaders of the 1948's Palestinians (i.e. located in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1948).

According to the court's decision, the top Palestinian figure, Raed Salah, is sentenced to nine month in jail in addition to a suspended period of six probation months. Salah's imprisonment sentence is to take effect on February 28, 2010.

The Israeli court also ruled that Salah must pay a fine of seven thousand five hundred shekels (2000 U.S. dollars).
Following the court verdict, he confirmed that he would continue his activities until the withdrawal of the Israeli occupation and the liberation of Jerusalem.

This verdict comes under Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing extremist government which is composed of ministers and officials who are notorious for their racist and chauvinist positions and are led by the extreme right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Israeli government has targeted Arab lawmakers in the Israeli parliament (Knesset) through similar assaults and has violently attacked the demonstrators' peaceful protests against the occupation's policies.

Among those involved in the current Israeli government are; Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who has emerged politically through his extremist and racist appeals against Arabs and Lieberman's deputy, Danny Ayalon, who insulted the Turkish Ambassador in front of media cameras. Moreover, the Defence collation in the current government is led by Ehud Barak, who bears the responsibility for the war crimes committed during the terrible war of aggression on Gaza in the winter of 2008/2009 according to the records of Goldstone Commission of the United Nations in its famous report.

In 2000, the Israeli troops opened fire on him when he was shot in the head and was about to lose his life. The incident was considered as an attempted assassination by observers.

The Israeli occupation authorities arrested him several times, the first was in 1981. Between 2003 and 2005, Salah was imprisoned after the Israeli authorities sentenced him to two years in prison. After his release, he continued his public and popular movements against the occupation.

He was then arrested many times by the from Israeli occupation forces for short periods due to his contribution to protesting rallies in solidarity with the city of Jerusalem and its inhabitants.

On January 13, 2010, an Israeli court sentenced him to nine months in prisons plus a six-month suspended sentence in addition to paying a fine. The sentence will take effect starting from February 28, 2010.