His brother Ra’ed Al-Tirawi said that the court accused Jamal of being involved in directing and dispatching Palestinian fighters for military attacks against Israeli targets.
The court also accused him of recruiting operatives for Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, dealing in weaponry and supplying arms to his group in Nablus.
The lawmaker was arrested from home in the Balata refugee camp, to the east of Nablus, in May 2007.
The Fatah parliamentary bloc slammed the decision saying “it is illegal and another Israeli crime that targets the Palestinian people.”
It added that the decision is “an Israeli violation of international laws and norms and the immunity of elected Palestinian lawmakers.”
It called on the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the European Parliament and the Arab Parliamentary Union “to pressure Israel to release all Palestinian lawmakers.” Israel is holding 21 lawmakers from Fatah, Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
In a separate development, Jewish occupiers wounded an 80-year-old Palestinian woman while she was taking part in an olive harvest in the West Bank village of Mikhmas, to the southeast of Ramallah.
Palestinian security sources said the woman was hit in the head and was evacuated to the Ramallah hospital.
Palestinian sources said the incident is a “price tag attack” by occupiers against the demolition of four unauthorized homes near the Bat Ayin settlement, to the north of Hebron on early Monday.