Palestinian PFLP lawmaker’s detention extended by Israel, family says

The family of a senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terror group, who has been held without charge for nearly a year, says that Israel has extended her detention by four months.

Khalida Jarrar, who serves as a lawmaker in the Palestine Legislative Council, was scheduled to be released on June 30. But her husband, Ghassan, says Sunday that her lawyer was informed of the extension by Israeli authorities.

Jarrar is being held under “administrative detention,” a controversial Israeli counter-terrorism measure that permits holding people suspected of terrorism for months at a time without charges.

In 2015, she served 15 months after being convicted of incitement to violence and “promoting terror activities.”

Jarrar was arrested again last year and has remained in administrative detention.

Her husband calls it a “political” detention.

The IDF has no immediate comment.

— Agencies