Hawzah News Agency (Occupied Territories of Palestine) - Amjad Abu Asab, the chairman of a local committee for prisoners’ families, said the Jerusalem al-Quds District Court passed the verdict against the 17-year-old Marh Jawdat Musa Bakir on Wednesday, January 4.

She was found guilty of attempting an assault in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem al-Quds, which lies two kilometers north of the al-Quds’ Old City, on October 12, 2015.

Bakir was also ordered to pay a fine of 10,000 Israeli shekels (over 2,500 dollars).

The Palestinian teenager was arrested outside her school in Sheikh Jarrah after being shot and seriously wounded in her hand. She was discharged from hospital on November 1 that year, and initially moved to the Ashkelon prison before being transferred to Ramla and HaSharon prisons.

Bakir needs follow-up treatment and medical care as bullets have smashed bones in her hand. She is also in need of a muscle transplant.

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