Israeli forces arrest Palestinian governor of Jerusalem al-Quds again

Israeli military forces have arrested the Palestinian Authority Jerusalem al-Quds governor, Adnan Ghaith, one more time, taking him from his home for interrogation.

Palestinian sources, requesting not to be named, said Israeli troops stormed Silwan neighborhood on the outskirts of the Old City of Jerusalem al-Quds on Thursday, and broke into Ghaith’s house, before arresting him.

Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP that Ghaith's apprehension from his home was over “Palestinian activity in Jerusalem” al-Quds, without giving further details.

Ghaith's apprehension came only a day after Israeli authorities closed the offices of two organizations affiliated to the Palestinian Authority (PA) in Jerusalem al-Quds.

The PA official has been detained several times since his appointment as governor of Jerusalem al-Quds in June 2018.

Israeli forces arrested Ghaith on October 14 after carrying out a dawn raid at his home in Silwan. Pictures emerged on social media, showing heavily armed Israeli soldiers arresting Ghaith inside his home.

Israeli forces detain al-Quds Jerusalem governor, senior Fatah figures

Israeli forces have arrested the Palestinian Authority Jerusalem al-Quds governor and senior Fatah officials during separate raids in the West Bank.

The secretary of the Fatah movement in Jerusalem al-Quds, Shadi Mutour, was also detained in a wave of raids by Israeli forces on that day.

On September 25, Israeli forces summoned Ghaith to appear for questioning on suspicion of breaking an Israeli law that bans activities by the Palestinian Authority in Jerusalem al-Quds.

Because he was not home at the time, Israeli authorities presented his family with the summons and asked his son to appear before Israeli intelligence for questioning.

Israeli police had also arrested Ghaith back on February 27. He was among 21 Palestinians rounded up in overnight raids carried out by Israeli forces in occupied East Jerusalem al-Quds, Ma’an news agency reported at the time.

The report added that many of those rounded up were members of the Fatah movement in Jerusalem al-Quds.

Last December, Ghaith was briefly placed under house arrest and was later banned from entering the West Bank for a six-month period.

Jerusalem al-Quds remains at the heart of the decades-long Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

Palestinians want the occupied West Bank as part of their future independent state, and hope that East Jerusalem al-Quds – under Israel’s occupation since 1967 – will one day serve as the capital of their future sovereign state.

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