The Israeli army arrested a Hamas member of the Palestinian parliament at his home in the occupied West Bank overnight, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said on Friday.

Mohammad Abu Tir, 65, was arrested in a raid on his home near Ramallah, the group said, only two months ago after he was released from a previous 17-month sentence.

Abu Tir is from east Jerusalem which he represents on the Palestinian Legislative Council.

His arrest brings to 13 the number of people from the 132-member Palestinian Legislative Council currently jailed by ‘Israel’, according to the Palestinian rights group Addameer.

Source: AFP