Israeli Army Arrests Ex-Hamas Lawmakers in West Bank
Israeli occupation forces detained two former Palestinian legislators, affiliated with Palestinian resistance group Hamas, in raids in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, according to local residents.
Zionist soldiers raided the homes of former MPs, Hatem Qafisha and Nayef Rajoub, in the city of Al-Khalil (Hebron) in the southern West Bank and took them into custody, the residents said.
Qafisha was later released by Israeli forces.
Last week, the Israeli army arrested former Hamas lawmaker Nezar Ramadan and former minister Essa al-Jaabari, who was later released.
Israeli forces have leveled large swathes of Palestinian-owned land in the West Bank city of Ramallah in order to construct new illegal settler units in the occupied territory.
Palestine's official Wafa news agency, citing local sources, reported that Israeli bulldozers entered private Palestinian land in the villages of Deir Qaddis and ...
Israeli forces have attacked Palestinians during weekly protests against the Tel Aviv regime’s illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, leaving dozens of people injured.
The Israeli enemy on Monday released the Palestinian prisoner Karim Ibrahim Hamdi Abu Mariyah (20 years) who descends from the town of Beit Ummar in Al-Khalil (Hebron) governorate, in the south of the occupied West Bank.
The United Nations as well as European member states of the UN Security Council have called on Israel to stop its ongoing demolitions of Palestinian homes and buildings of Bedouin communities in the occupied West Bank.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says Israeli forces have either demolished or confiscated nearly 90 Palestinian structures in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem al-Quds, displacing about 150 Palestinians in two weeks.
