On Thursday morning, the Israeli police arrested several Arab Israeli leaders, including the head of the Supreme Follow-up Committee for Palestinians, Muhammad Baraka, in conjunction with a stance against the ongoing Israeli aggression against Gaza.

The Israeli police initially arrested the head of the Supreme Follow-up Committee for Internal Palestinians, Muhammad Baraka, in the city of Nazareth, when he was on his way to participate in a protest to stop the war. This was followed by the arrest of the head of the National Rally, Sami Abu Shehadeh, former MP Haneen Zoabi, and other leaders.

The National Democratic Rally denounced the unjustified attack on the stand initiated by the leaders of the Arab community at home and the Supreme Follow-up Committee against the war and against the bloodshed that continues to this day, as the police attacked and arrested the participants, and which continues its hostile policy against any position or expression of a moral and humanitarian position. Against the war and for stopping it.

The gathering stressed that this attack on the leaders of the Arab community is a dangerous precedent that contains a clear political message to silence our national, moral and humanitarian voice and to reject any voice against the war and silence the mouths of the Arab community inside.

The gathering also demanded the release of all detainees in a pause, including the head of the follow-up committee, Muhammad Baraka, the head of the National Democratic Rally, Sami Abu Shehadeh, the deputy secretary-general of the gathering, Youssef Tatour, and former MP Haneen Zoabi. The gathering demanded the release of all detainees who have been arrested since the beginning of the war until today. this.