Palestinian MP Halida Jarrar, one of the most prominent figures of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), was arrested today by the Israeli army in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, her husband said.

Jarrar, aged 60, was arrested by Israeli army soldiers who raided her home in Ramallah “by breaking down the door at 5am,” Ghassan Jarrar told AFP.

Jarrar has been a member of the suspended Palestinian parliament since 2007. She was released in September 2021 after serving a two-year sentence in an Israeli prison.

He was arrested in October 2019 following the death of a 17-year-old Israeli girl who was killed in an attack in the occupied West Bank.

In a press release, the PFLP said the Israeli army “conducted this morning a massive arrest operation among PFLP leaders and members in the occupied West Bank.”

“These arrests will not bend the will of our people,” added the organization.

The Israeli military confirmed in a press release that it had arrested Jarrar, introducing her as “the head of the PFLP in the West Bank and adding that she was ‘wanted for terrorism.’

Other “high-ranking officials” of the organization were also arrested this morning, the PFLP added.

The Israeli military has stepped up arrest operations in the West Bank since Oct. 7 and the start of the war in the Gaza Strip, which began after an unprecedented and bloody attack by Hamas on Israeli soil that left an estimated 1,140 dead, mostly civilians. , according to the data published by the Israeli authorities.

According to the Prisoners Association, an organization that defends the rights of Palestinian prisoners, approximately 4,700 Palestinians have been arrested in the West Bank since October 7.