Palestinian MP Khalida Jarrar, a figurehead of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), was arrested on Tuesday, December 26, in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, by Israeli army soldiers who broke into the family's home. by breaking down the door at five in the morning,” her husband Ghassan Jarrar told Agence France-Presse.
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In a statement, the PFLP said the Israeli army “carried out an extensive arrest campaign among PFLP leaders and members in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday morning.” The organization – of Marxist persuasion and considered “terrorist” by Israel, the United States and the European Union – said: “These arrests will not break the will of our people.” » Other “senior officials” of the group were also arrested on Tuesday morning , added her.
Since October 7, 4,700 Palestinians have been arrested in the West Bank
Khalida Jarrar has been a suspended member of the Palestinian Parliament since 2007 and was released in September 2021 after serving a two-year sentence in an Israeli prison. In a statement, the Israeli army confirmed the MP's re-arrest, portraying her as a “leader of the PFLP” in the West Bank and reiterating that she was “wanted for terrorism.”
Since October 7 and the start of the war in Gaza, which was triggered by a Hamas attack on Israeli soil, the Israeli army has increased its arrest campaigns in the West Bank. According to the Prisoners' Club, an association that advocates for the rights of Palestinian prisoners, around 4,700 Palestinians have been arrested in the West Bank since October 7. Israel's retaliatory offensive for the Hamas attack killed more than 20,600 people, most of them women, teenagers and children, according to the latest Hamas Health Ministry report.
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