Cuba's National People's Power Assembly (ANPP) on Wednesday condemned Israel's arrest of Palestinian Parliament Speaker Aziz Dweik, saying it has seriously violated international law, the official Granma newspaper reported.

The ANPP's foreign affairs committee said that the incident "constitutes a serious violation of the most basic norms of international law," and "an unacceptable offense to the parliamentarians of the world who are observing, with shock, the total disrespect for a sovereign parliament elected by the people."

The ANPP called on the world's parliamentarians to demand the physical security and immediate freedom of Dweik and other Palestinian parliamentarians arrested by Israel.

On Saturday night, Israeli forces stormed Dweik's house in the West Bank city of Ramallah and arrested him.

Israeli troops rounded up eight Hamas cabinet ministers and over 20 Hamas lawmakers in the West Bank in late June, shortly after starting a massive air and ground offensive in the Gaza Strip to rescue a kidnapped soldier and halt Palestinian rocket attacks.

Source: Xinhua