Ayman Odeh, the chairman of the Joint Arab List party, visited Palestinian terrorist Khalida Jarrar, a senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, in her home in Al-Bireh near Ramallah on Monday following her release from Israeli prison.
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Jarrar is a Palestinian lawmaker and a senior official with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist organization, whose members carried out an attack in Samaria in 2018, murdering 17-year-old Rina Shnerb and seriously wounding her father and sibling.
Jarrar was released on Sunday after a two-year sentence she received as part of a plea bargain with the Military Prosecution, which had convicted her of having ties to a known terrorist group. The court, however, found insufficient evidence to press more serious charges against her.
She had been held in administrative detention since October 2019. Her sentence included time served.
Joint Arab List member Aida Touma-Sliman garnered harsh criticism Sunday for posting a congratulatory message on Facebook that included a photo with her and Jarrar embracing.
Odeh, who posted photos of himself with Jarrar from her home on Facebook, wrote: "The occupation accused her more than once of being a member of an illegal organization, that's why she was imprisoned more than once. What manner of affront is this?! The occupation determines legality?!
I visited her, together with the dear Bassam Al-Salehi, the General-Secretary of the Palestinian People's Party, to console her over the death of her daughter, Suha, who died while she was in prison. The occupation refused to let her out for a few hours to attend her daughter's funeral."
In his Facebook post, Odeh also referred to the Hamas terrorists killed by IDF forces in Jenin on Sunday as "young men" and condemned Jewish visitation to the Temple Mount.
"The issue is not just the warrior Khalida, an not just the killing of the five young men in Jenin [on Sunday]; not just the unprecedented disgrace with the Israeli flags at the al-Aqsa mosque [Sunday] morning; not just the roadblocks and not just the siege of Gaza; but that they are all the result of the criminal occupation," Odeh added.
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