Israeli court postpones trial of Jerusalem governor Adnan Ghaith

Israeli occupation authorities held a new court session on Sunday in the case of Adnan Ghaith, the governor of Jerusalem, before deciding to postpone the proceedings.

The Jerusalem Governorate Media Office said in a press statement that the Israeli court deferred Ghaith’s trial until 20 January, citing alleged violations of previously issued military orders against him.

Ghaith has faced a series of restrictive and punitive measures since assuming his post as governor of Jerusalem in 2018. Israeli authorities have issued multiple military orders against him, including a ban on entering the West Bank and severe limits on his freedom of movement, confining him to a narrow area within his neighbourhood in Silwan.

He has also been barred from contacting 51 national and official figures, among them senior Palestinian political and security officials.

In addition, Israeli authorities previously imposed a house arrest order on Ghaith for more than two years at his home in Silwan, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in what Palestinian officials say was an attempt to isolate him from political and national life in occupied Jerusalem.

The case is part of ongoing Israeli measures targeting Palestinian officials and institutions in the occupied city.

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