PFLP threatens escalation after leader sent to solitary in Israeli prison

8 May 2023, 2:21 pm

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Palestinian supporters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) hold posters of the party's leader Ahmad Saadat, who is currently jailed in Israel, as they call for his release of during a protest in the West Bank city of Nablus, March 15, 2010. The Arabic text on the poster reads "Our compass doesn't point anywhere except to Palestine." (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terror group threatens an escalation in violence after the group’s leader was sent to solitary confinement in an Israeli prison.

In a statement, the group says that if PFLP secretary-general Ahmad Sa’adat is not returned to general quarters at the Ramon prison it will take “steps to escalate the situation.”

There was no immediate comment from the Israel Prison Service.

The move comes the same day the Shin Bet announces that it has arrested 6 members of a PFLP terror cell accused of attempting to carry out a bombing attack on a bus in March and planning further attacks in the West Bank.

Sa’adat is serving a 30-year sentence for his role in the 2001 assassination of Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze’evi.