Jerusalem – Ma‘an – Israeli police detained the Palestinian Member of Parliament and leader of the Palestinian National Initiative (PNI), Mustafa Barghouthi on Friday morning on his way to Jerusalem for Friday prayers.
He was arrested at the Al-Dhahiy checkpoint in the north of Jerusalem after he got out of his car.
Dr Barghouthi told Ma‘an that he was held for three hours before being released.
He then drove to the Qalandia Checkpoint in the central West Bank an attended Friday prayers in front of the checkpoint.
He told Ma‘an that after the prayer an Israeli army "sniper" started shooting rubber bullets at the worshippers from the checkpoint watchtower
Twenty-four-year-old Jameela Hasan, a mother of six, was shot in the head. She was taken to Ramallah Hospital.