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IDF arrests key Hamas elections official and 20 others in the West Bank
[IsraelTimes] Security forces nabbedDrop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! a top West Bank Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, official overnight Tuesday, drawing accusations from the Gazoo-based terror group that Israel is meddling in the upcoming Paleostinian municipal elections. Hussein Abu Kweik was arrested at his home in the el-Amari refugee camp near Ramallah, the Shin Bet security agency said in a statement. Abu Kweik is Hamas’s main West Bank campaigner in the elections, which are slated for October 8. Last week, he was appointed Hamas’s only representative to the PA’s central elections commission, which is overseeing the elections. He was arrested in a joint operation by the IDF and Shin Bet "for his involvement in security-related activities that presented a threat to security in the area," the Shin Bet said. Specifically, Abu Kweik is suspected of "incitement," the security service said. However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... additional allegations may be brought against the senior Hamas official following his interrogation, it added. In recent days Abu Kweik has boasted that his group is the "spearhead of the resistance" against Israel, Israel Radio reported. In the same operation, Israeli forces arrested a number of other suspected Hamas members from villages and cities around the West Bank, the IDF said. Two were arrested along with Abu Kweik in el-Amari. In Beitunia, one alleged member of the terrorist group was picked up, along with one in Dayr Samet, southwest of Hebron, and another in Surif, west of Efrat. Three more suspected Hamas members were arrested by IDF troops in Hebron, the army said. In addition to the alleged members of the terrorist organization, 12 Paleostinians were arrested in the West Bank overnight Tuesday, five of them for throwing rocks and taking part in violent protests, the army said. During nighttime raids in the Hebron area, Israeli forces also found military equipment, bullets and two handguns -- one in the al-Fawar refugee camp and the second in Halhul -- the army said. Hamas’s Gazoo leadership decried Abu Kweik’s arrest Wednesday, with front man Sami Abu-Zuhri calling it an Israeli attempt to intervene in the elections. Hamas has already accused PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... ’s Fatah party of arresting Hamas activists in a bid to influence the results of the elections. The group is considering boycotting the municipal elections if the Paleostinian Authority does not cease arresting its members, he said. Since Hamas -- considered a terror group by Israel and most Western governments -- surprisingly agreed to participate in the municipal elections, it has been complaining that its activists in the West Bank are being rounded up by PA security forces. Fatah has made the same complaint about its representatives being arrested in the Gazoo Strip. Police nab suspect in last week’s East Jerusalem attack
I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! in connection with Thursday’s stabbing attack in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of A-Tur, the Shin Bet security agency announced Wednesday. The suspect has been identified by police as 19-year-old Ahmad Na’im A’shayer, a resident of A-Tur. He is also suspected of hurling Molotov cocktails and firecrackers at security services on April 15, the Shin Bet said. Posted by: trailing wife 2016-08-18 |
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