Israel Arrests Palestinian Leftist Figure Khalida Jarrar
October 31, 2019
1:13 pm
Israeli forces arrested a prominent Palestinian politician from her home in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah overnight on Thursday.
Khalida Jarrar, a former member of the defunct Palestinian Legislative Council, was arrested at 3am local time (00:00 GMT) and taken to an unknown area, local media reported.
According to her daughter Yara Jarrar, the house was surrounded by more than Israeli 70 soldiers who arrived in 12 military vehicles.
“Mom and sister were asleep when they approached,” Yara said in a post on Twitter.
The 56-year-old Jarrar, who is associated with the left-wing Popular Front for the Liberation
