PA forces arrest, brutally assault Palestinians participating in anti-corruption protest

Ramallah (QNN)- Several Palestinians were arrested yesterday by the Palestinian Authority forces for their participating in a protest in Ramallah against the PA’s killing and assassination of Nizar Banat.

At least 10 Palestinian activists, lawyers, writers and journalists were arrested on Monday night by the PA’s forces following their participation in a protest against the killing of Nizar Banat by the PA’s forces and against the PA forces brutally crackdown and arrest of protesters and activists.

Journalist Mais Abu Ghoush, journalist Hind Ishraideh, her husband Ubai Aboodi, Taysir Ali (brother of marty Abu Ali Mustafa, the Secretary General of the PLFP), lawyer Diala Ayesh, journalist Aqeel Awawdeh, activist Shadi Emera, Basel Habash, Haitham Saiag, are among others who were arrested by the PA’s forces yesterday.

The PA this morning, however, released some of those who were arrested yesterday after they were brutally assaulted at the hands of the PA’s forces.

Following her release, Mais Abu Ghoush told Quds News Network that the PA’s forces requested the protesters to leave and not to protest. She said the forces then brutally assaulted the protesters and sprayed pepper gas.

Abu Ghoush also said that there were female repressive elements among the PA’s forces to suppress the protesters and attack the female activists.

She said that the forces brutally attacked her, pushed her on the ground and violently dragged her down the street.

The journalist and activist Hind Ishraideh who was arrested along with her husband Ubai Aboodi yesterday, said that she was protesting against the PA’s arret of her husband, but the forces also arrested her.

#WATCH| "No for political detention"… Writer Hind Ishraideh and her family hold a vigil in front of a PA police station in Al Bireh in protest against the detention of her husband Ubai Aboodi, as well as, other intellectuals by the PA security forces. pic.twitter.com/7KnWsNaj3E

— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) July 5, 2021

Following her release, Ishraideh said that the forces requested her to sign on a pledge, but she refused because she didn’t break the law, as she said.

Ishraideh also said that her husband has entered in a hunger and water strike in protest against his arrest.

Lawyer Diala Ayesh also said she was “physically harassed” by the PA forces during her arrest.

Abu Ghoush also noted that the detainees demanded to be transferred to the hospital due to the violent crackdown of the PA’s forces.