Israeli forces detained Palestinian lawmaker and member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Khalida Jarrar after raiding her home early Thursday.Israeli forces surrounded her house in the al-Irsal neighborhood al-Bireh near Ramallah, confiscating two computers and a mobile phone after searching the home.
Jarrar's daughter Yaffa told Ma'an that Israeli forces came around 3:00 a.m., demanded to see her mother, and informed her that she was under arrest.
Head of the Palestinian Prisoner's Society, Fares Qaddura, denounced Jarrar's arrest as a "revengeful act" in response to her refusal to agree to the Israeli army's decision to deport her from the Ramallah district to Jericho.
The Israeli authorities had issued the order last August. She did not respond to the order and the Israeli authorities dropped it some two months later.
At the time, prisoner rights group Addameer said that Jarrar was told she would be confined to Jericho for the next six months because she was a "threat to the security of the area."
Following the initial order, the group also noted that the raid pointed to the fact that the Palestinian Authority was complicit in her arrest, as any raid on areas in Area A -- the approximately 20 percent of the West Bank technically under full Palestinian control as a result of the Oslo Accords -- had to be taken with their coordination.
"By allowing Israeli occupying forces to enter Ramallah means that in effect the so-called 'security co-ordination' between Palestinian Authority security forces and Israeli occupying forces allowed for the expulsion of an elected representative of the Palestinian people, an elected representative who has continuously called for an end to such 'coordination,'" the group said.
An Israeli army spokeswoman did not have any immediate information but told Ma'an she would look into Thursday morning's incident.
Jarrar is an active member in several women committees as well as the prisoners' committee in the legislative council.
Her detainment came just one day after Muna Qadan, political affiliate of Islamic Jihad, was sentenced to 70 months in prison by Israeli authorities for alleged illegal political activity.
The majority of Palestinian political organizations are considered illegal by Israel, and association with such parties is often used as grounds for imprisonment, according to Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association Addameer.
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