Female terrorists are studying without the Israeli prison’s knowledge, says senior PFLP official and MP Jarrar

PA Parliament Member and Senior PFLP Official Khalida Jarrar: “There are seven female prisoners who are engaged in academic studies without the [Israeli prison] management knowing it. I know that when I say this it might lead to persecutions of them or me, as if we are doing something forbidden. But I say: No, we also need to talk about the other side, which is the female prisoners’ attempts to gain their rights, for example to study.”

Khalida Jarrar – Palestinian Authority MP arrested by Israeli authorities on April 12, 2015, for being a member of the terror organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), for inciting to kidnap Israeli soldiers and inciting to terror. On Dec. 6, 2015 she was sentenced to 15 months in prison, fined 10,000 shekels, and given an additional suspended sentence of 10 months for incitement to violence and belonging to the PFLP terror organization. Jarrar was released in June 2016 following an international campaign on her behalf. She was arrested again in July 2017 and is being held in administrative detention that was extended in December 2017, and again in June 2018. The reasons for her administrative detention have not been released. Jarrar was released from detention on Feb. 28, 2019.