Israel court orders house arrest for Jenin woman

An Israeli court decided Saturday to place the mother of a Palestinian prisoner from the Jenin district under house arrest in Israel after she was detained for allegedly smuggling a phone to her imprisoned son.Fathiya Abu Raed's husband told Ma'an his wife went with two children to visit her son in prison. During the visit, someone handed his wife a tray for the x-ray machine that had two phones in it, he said.Police arrested the woman and accused her of trying to smuggle the phones to her son.Ragheb Abu Dyak, the director of the Palestinian prisoners center in Jenin, said the incident was the first case in which a Palestinian woman was ordered to house arrest outside her actual home.She is being held in Rehat in the Negev, according to the group.