An Israeli military court on Thursday sentenced a French-Palestinian lawyer to four months in prison without charge or trial, saying he poses a security threat.
Salah Hamouri, 36, was arrested on Monday and will remain in administrative custody.
The controversial practice allows suspects to be detained without charge for a renewable period of six months.
The court accused him of being a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and said he “endangers security in the region”.
The PFLP has been implicated in several deadly attacks on Israelis and is considered a “terrorist group” by Israel, the United States and the European Union.
Hamourik a day before the arrest published An op-ed in the socialist magazine Jacobin in which he wrote that “the purpose of Israel’s apartheid regime was to silence me and encourage me to leave and leave the country.”
Last year, human rights groups said Hamouri was on a list of activists whose phones were hacked by the Pegasus spyware of the Israeli NSO group.
Hamouri has been arrested and imprisoned by the Israeli authorities on several occasions.
In 2005, he was detained, tried again and found guilty of plotting to assassinate Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the former prime minister of Israel.
French President Emmanuel Macron discussed his matter several times with the then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
He was released from prison in 2011, but was arrested again in 2017 and jailed for 18 months without trial on unspecified charges.
“The detention system in Israeli prisons is often difficult. The Israelis make every effort to imprison our will, isolating us from our society and our family,” Hamouri said at the time, denying links to the PFLP and the assassination attempt.
Israel says administrative detention protects sources and deters attacks. Critics say it denies due process to prisoners.
