Israeli radio: Israel decides to try Barghouthi and five colleagues

The Israeli radio on Thursday evening said that four Palestinian leaders in the Palestinian resistance movement will be tried in front of "civil courts" together with the secretary of the Fatah Movement in the West Bank Marwan Hussein Bargouthi under the charge of resisting occupation.

The radio said that these Palestinian leaders are the two leaders of "al-Aqsa martyrs groups" in Nablus and Ramullah, Nasser Eweis, Nasser Abu Hameed, and Thabet Mardawi from the Islamic Jihad movement and Abbas al-Sayyed from the Hamas Movement.

However, the spokesman for the Israeli ministry of justice announced that an open and civilian court trial for Barghouthi who has been arrested since April 15, will be made.

The spokesman said that the ministry has not yet set a date for the trial, and he admitted that the Israeli military courts before which the Palestinians are tried under cases of resisting the Israeli occupation, do not usually operate in the open.