23 Palestinian members of parliament in Israeli jails
Source: Ma’an
Twenty-three Palestinian lawmakers are currently being held in Israeli jails, a majority of whom have been detained in the last two weeks during the Israeli arrest campaign across the West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said on Wednesday.
Eleven of the 23 members of the Palestinian Legislative Council were detained prior to the campaign, the first of whom was Marwan Barghouthi in 2002.
The two most recently-detained lawmakers were taken on Tuesday night during a raid in Bethlehem. Read more »