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HEBRON (Ma’an) -- Israeli courts on Monday sentenced a Palestinian man to 10 years in prison for partaking in a "Palestinian resistance movement" affiliated with Fatah, the head of the Palestinian Prisoner's Society said.

Amjad al-Najjar said 29-year-old Ehab Numer al-Hajouj, from the village of Bani Naim in the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron, was sentenced in the Ofer military court. In addition to his 10 year sentence, al-Hajouj was fined 2,000 shekels ($512).

Al-Hajouj, who is married, was detained in March.

There were 6,900 Palestinians held in Israeli jails as of January, according to prisoners' rights group Addameer.