On April 2, Israeli soldiers arrested Jarrar after raiding her home in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
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Abu Qtaish asserted that the Israeli occupation, “no longer shows any respect for Palestinian children’s right to life”, stressing that Israel “turns it back to all worldwide treaties that protect children”.
“The Palestinians are continuing to incite their youth, using any means necessary to educate them about violence and hatred”.
Palestinians say Jarrar, who is in her early 50s and is the mother of two grown daughters pursuing advanced university degrees in Canada, was prosecuted for political reasons.
Near-daily Palestinian attacks on Israelis that began in mid-September are showing no signs of relenting.
Jarrar is a senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a secular, left-leaning Palestinian faction that opposes peace with Israel.
Thousands of Palestinians attended the funeral of 19-year-old Malik Akram Shahin on Tuesday morning, hours after he was shot dead by Israeli forces during a detention raid into Duheisha refugee camp south of Bethlehem.
Since 1 October, Israeli forces have killed 105 Palestinians, 65 of whom Israel says were assailants or had been caught on camera carrying out assaults. At least 114 Palestinians have now been killed in just over two months of unrest across the occupied Palestinian territory.
“These dolls were making their way to the Palestinian Authority with one clear objective”, Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely said Tuesday.
The report also said some of the money was spent on paying the salary of settler leader Menachem Livni, an Israeli jailed in connection with his activities in a radical Jewish group that carried out attacks against Palestinians in the 1980s.
The consignment of dolls arrived in the thick of a wave of violence which has seen 21 people killed and 215 people wounded by Palestinian terrorists in the space of three months.
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