Jerusalem--Israeli troops arrested Palestinian legislator Khalida Jarrar Thursday for posing unspecified "substantial security risks," a military spokeswoman told AFP.
Jarrar is a senior member of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), deemed a "terrorist organisation" by the Israeli justice ministry.
Last August, she was served an Israeli order banning her from her home in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah and sending her into internal exile in the town of Jericho.
She said at the time that she would disobey the order.
The Ramallah-based Palestinian Prisoners' Club said she was arrested at her home.
Senior Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi said the move was for political rather than security reasons.
"It is obvious that her arrest is politically motivated and a violation of her parliamentary immunity, and Israel should respect international norms regarding the immunity of elected officials," Ashrawi, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation's executive committee, said in a statement.
The Palestinian leadership says 18 of 130 Palestinian MPs are currently in Israeli detention.
But the Prisoners' Club said Jarrar was the 16th to be arrested.
The Palestinian parliament has not met since 2007, after elections a year earlier won by the Islamist movement Hamas.
AFP
