Israel extends Khalida Jarrar's detention for the third consecutive time.

247, with April The renewal of the administrative detention of Jarrar, one of the Palestinian political figures who has been most prominent in criticizing the Israeli occupation and condemning the atrocities committed against Palestinians, comes two weeks before the date on which he was supposed to be released, reports the Ma'an news agency.

Khalida Jarrar, a Member of Parliament for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in the Palestinian Legislative Council, where she leads the committee on prisoners, and representative of Palestine to the Council of Europe, was arrested on July 2, 2017, and saw her detention renewed for a period of six months at the end of last year.

Jarrar had already been arrested in April 2015, spending 14 months in Israeli prisons before being released on June 3, 2016, with a 12-month suspended sentence for a period of five years. She didn't even get to spend a month in freedom.

Ma'an reports that the extension of administrative detention for a period of three months has been approved by the Israeli military court in Ofer. Under this regime, a detainee – without trial or formal charges – can have their detention extended indefinitely.

In a statement, the PFLP declared that the renewed detention of Khalida Jarrar "is an attempt to suppress revolutionary leaders who could alter the course of events in occupied Palestine, especially with regard to the occupation's attacks in the West Bank, the siege and imposition of sanctions on the Gaza Strip, and attempts to impose the so-called 'deal of the century'."

He stressed, however, that "the continued detention of Khalida Jarrar will not break his will," but will "only increase his determination and commitment to the national liberation of Palestine."

605 Palestinians arrested in May

Meanwhile, the Palestinian Prisoners Society, the Addameer Prisoners Support Group, the Prisoners' Affairs Committee, and the Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights reported that in May, Israeli occupation forces arrested 605 Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Jerusalem, including 94 minors and nine women. In addition, they issued 83 administrative detention orders, 36 of which were new and the rest renewals.

According to the report issued by these organizations, there are approximately 6.000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. Of these, 350 are minors and 430 are being held without formal charges, under administrative detention.