The statement came Tuesday, a day after Israel abducted Ali Salim Romanin, who represents the West Bank city of Jericho in the PLC. He was released from Israeli prisons just five months and some twenty days back after spending four and a half years in administrative detention without charge or trial.
Bahar suggested that the arrest reflects the depth of Israel's crisis and the extent of confusion that dominates decision-making circles in Israel.
Israel has failed to curb the steady effectiveness and influence of Palestinian lawmakers across the West Bank, despite all the plots devised to remove them from the community, Bahar said.
The senior PLC official condemned world silence over Israel's abuses of Palestinian elected officials, accusing UN agencies and rights groups of ”political hypocrisy”.
A statement by the PLC's Change and Reform bloc, asserted that the Romanin arrest was designed to torpedo Palestinian reconciliation efforts that culminated in the signing of a Hamas-Fatah unity deal on Tuesday in Cairo.
The unity deal means that the PLC would resume operating in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
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