The Israeli occupation authorities released Palestinian leader and MP Khaleda Jarrar Yesterday, Sunday, in the first stages of the ceasefire in Gaza.
Jarrar, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council before its dissolution in 2018, was arrested by Israel for the first time in 2015, according to the Addameer Foundation for Prisoner Care and Human Rights.
The occupation forces and snipers raided her home in Ramallah on April 2, 2015, and she was transferred between Israeli detention centers before being placed in Hasharon Women’s Prison and an administrative detention order was issued against her for six months.
She was then sentenced to 15 months in prison before being released in June 2016.
Israel had accused Khaleda Jarrar of membership in a banned organization, incitement to violence, and holding a sit-in in support of Palestinian prisoners and detainees.
“Arrest is like daily death”
In July 2017, Israel re-arrested Khalida Jarrar after another raid on her home and assault on her, her husband, and her daughter. It extended her detention three times to remain in prison for 20 months before releasing her on February 28, 2019.
Eight months after her second release, Israel arrested her on October 31, 2019, and sentenced her to 24 months in prison on charges of holding a position in the Israeli-banned Popular Front.
While she spent two years in occupation prisons, during which she lost her daughter Soha on July 11, 2021, she was released on September 26, 2021.
As the Israeli war of extermination in Gaza intensified, the Israeli occupation forces arrested Khaleda Jarrar for the fourth time on December 26, 2023, to spend about 13 months in Damoun prison, south of Haifa, in conditions they described as “daily death.”
She said in one of her statements: “I die every day. The cell is like a small closed box that does not allow air to enter. There is only a toilet in the cell and a small window above it, which was later closed. There is only a small opening that I sit next to most of the time to breathe.”
She added: “One day after I was transferred, I was suffocating in my cell, and I was waiting for hours to pass, so that I might find oxygen molecules to breathe and stay alive,” according to Anadolu Agency.
After about 6 years, which she spent intermittently in… Israeli occupation prisonsKhaleda Jarrar was finally freed, along with 89 Palestinian men and women, on the first day of the ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian factions in Gaza.
It is expected that Israel will release about 2,000 Palestinian prisoners within 6 weeks, according to Reuters, in exchange for regaining 33 detainees in Gaza.