Sanaa Salameh Daqqah, widow of Walid Daqqah, was arrested at a military checkpoint in Jerusalem by Zionist occupation forces on Thursday. She now faces the possibility of having her citizenship revoked and being deported under a new law proposed by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. Earlier in the day, Ben-Gvir had threatened to strip Palestinians with Zionist citizenship from the territory occupied by the colonial state in 1948 of their citizenship if they are the families of imprisoned Palestinian fighters or if they receive funding from the Palestinian Authority’s Prisoners’ Affairs Commission. He noted that the State Attorney General’s Office approved the opening of an investigation against Sanaa Daqqah, citing as evidence posts on her social media commemorating her husband and other deceased Palestinian activists, as well as images of her family with Zakaria Zubeidi, a former leader of the armed resistance in Jenin who befriended Walid Daqqah in prison.
Her late husband, Walid Daqqa, was a Palestinian writer and political prisoner who participated in the armed struggle against the occupation as a member of the PFLP. He died in Ramleh Prison on April 7, 2024, after 38 years of imprisonment. Walid’s remains remain in occupation custody. Sanaa and Walid are the parents of Milad, their little girl, born thanks to sperm smuggled out of prison in 2020. Sanaa’s arrest leaves Milad without her parents.