The Zionist entity’s prisons service announced on Monday that it would not allow Khalida Jarrar, a jailed senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLFP) Resistance group, to attend her daughter’s funeral.

Jarrar’s daughter Suha, 31, a well-known Palestinian rights activist, died suddenly of a heart attack in Ramallah on Monday. Suha worked for the Palestinian rights group Al-Haq, and had researched the environmental impact of Israeli military rule.

Rights groups, as well as Arab Israeli lawmakers Aida Touma-Sliman and Osama Saadi from the Joint List party, had asked Israeli Public Security Minister Omer Barlev to grant Jarrar a furlough to attend her daughter’s funeral. A cluster of demonstrators also protested for Jarrar’s release outside the Ofer military court on Tuesday evening.

But in a letter to Barlev, a prisons service official wrote that they “lacked the ability” to free Jarrar, as she had been “convicted” in March of membership in the PFLP group, which is considered by the Israeli occupation as “terrorists”, for the second time.

Source: Israeli media