Israeli police arrested Adnan Ghaith, the Palestinian governor of Jerusalem, in a dawn raid, according to a local NGO and local media.
“The governor was arrested in a raid on his home in the Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan,” the Palestinian Prisoners Society said in a statement.
Ghaith was among 21 Palestinians rounded up in overnight raids carried out by Israeli forces in occupied East Jerusalem, Maan news agency reported.
Many of those rounded up were members of the Fatah movement in Jerusalem.
It remains unclear why the governor was arrested and Israeli police have yet to issue an official statement.
Ghaith, appointed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in August last year, was previously arrested several times by Israeli forces, the last of which was in November 2018.
In December, he was briefly placed under house arrest and was later banned from entering the occupied West Bank for a six-month period.
Source: Aljazeera
