Palestinians demand release of prison MP for daughter’s funeral | New Israel-Palestine Conflict

Rights groups say Israel should give permission for Khalida Jarrar to attend the funeral of her 31-year-old daughter Suha, who was found dead at her home in Ramallah.

Palestinian activists and rights groups have called on the Israeli authorities to release Palestinian lawmaker Khalida Jarrar, who is serving a prison sentence, so she can attend her daughter’s funeral.

Israeli prison services on Monday denied a request for political prisoner Jarrar to attend the funeral, according to Palestinian activists and Israeli media.

Suha Jarrar, 31, was found dead on Sunday afternoon in an occupied house in the West Bank’s Ramallah, Palestinian media reported. According to reports, Jarrar died of a heart attack.

Israeli occupation authorities refused to release political prisoner Khalida Jarrar to attend the funeral of his daughter Suha Jarrar and to deplore human dignity.

– Al-Haq Al-Haq (@alhaq_org) July 12, 2021

The young Jarrar was working as a legal investigator and official advocate in Ramallah, Al-Haq, a Palestinian human rights organization. Some of his most notable works focused on the environmental effects of the Israeli occupation.

A 2019 report argued that discriminatory Israeli policies prevent Palestinians in the occupied West Bank from being able to adapt to climate change.

In an obituary, Al-Haq said Suha was “an ardent defender of the rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination, freedom and dignity.”

Al-Haq said he had sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations asking him to immediately release Jarrar from Israeli prisons to say goodbye to his daughter “immediately and unconditionally.”

Beautiful fire, you left this world too early. May your soul rest in peace.

This photo is the last time his mother, Khalida Jarrar, was released from Israeli prison in February 2019. Less than a year later Khalida was arrested. They are expected to release him again in a few months. pic.twitter.com/W0JhzoCWDA

– Dr. Dr. Yara Hawari Dr. Yara Hawari (@yarahawari) July 12, 2021

Palestinian activists also spread an online demand for release. Others organized demonstrations in support of the West Bank and Gaza calls.

“Khalida has been arrested again and again [Jarrar] violating her rights, the Israeli authorities must at least allow her daughter to say goodbye, ”Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestinian director of Human Rights Watch, wrote in an obituary for Suha.

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An Israeli military court sentenced Jarrarri to two years in prison in March for “inciting violence” and being “in a banned organization.” They plan to release it in September.

The famous Palestinian politician has been in custody since his arrest by Israeli forces in the occupation of the West Bank city of Ramallah in 2019.

Jarrar, also a member of the Palestinian Parliamentary Council (PLC), who has been suspended from the Palestinian parliament, has been arrested several times and has served several times in Israeli administrative detention. Palestinians on the West Bank and Gaza list without trial or within six months.

The 58-year-old is linked to the left-wing Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which Israel believes is a “terrorist” group.

Jarrar was first arrested in 1989 and remained without trial for a month. He was sentenced to 15 months in prison in 2014 for a second arrest. He was finally released in February 2019, before being re-arrested nine months later.