Arrest of women "harms the Palestinian Authority's reputation"

Members of the Palestinian Legislative Council have denounced the arrest of Palestinian woman preacher Tamam Abul Saud in Nablus by the Palestinian Authority. Aziz Doweik and other parliamentarians in the West Bank have called the arrest of women by the PA “a horrible crime”. Such arrests, they claim in a press statement, “violate all principles, morals and conventions” and “harm the PA’s reputation and the Palestinian cause”.

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Tamam Abul Saud is a widow caring for her children, which “magnifies the crime committed by the PA”. The parliamentarians added that this is not the first time that a woman had been detained by the Palestinian Authority; such violations add to the internal Palestinian tensions, they said. Abul Saud’s arrest is “regrettable” and indicates that the PA is operating in coordination with Israeli security it is claimed. Is it a coincidence, they ask, that Israeli occupation forces arrested one of Tamam Abul Saud’s sons while the PA arrested another son and their mother?