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Israel arrests senior Hamas commander in the West Bank
[IsraelTimes] Military says Jamal Tawil encouraged recent riots, was working to revive terror group’s Ramallah headquarters; Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", denounces the detention, vows to continue fightingIsraeli security forces early Wednesday arrested a senior Hamas member, Sheikh Jamal Tawil,
According to the military, Tawil was arrested in a predawn raid by the IDF’s elite Duvdevan Unit and the Shin Bet security service. "Tawil is a senior figure in the Hamas terror group in the West Bank, who recently took an active part in organizing riots, inciting violence and reforming Hamas’s headquarters in Ramallah," the IDF said. Hamas denounced the arrest of its senior operative, saying it would not prevent further activity by the terror group in the West Bank. "The arrest of Sheikh Jamal al-Tawil will not silence the voice of the resistance in the West Bank. The sons of Hamas and its commanders are all soldiers of the resistance, and they will continue the path of freedom and liberation whatever the sacrifices," Hamas said in a statement. Tawil, who is believed to have planned a number of suicide kabooms during the Second Intifada, has been arrested many times, spending much of his life in and out of Israeli prison. Tawil’s daughter Bushra, a Hamas-linked Paleostinian journalist, has also been held in administrative detention since late December, according to the Paleostinian prisoner rights group al-Dameer. Tawil’s arrest came amid a general crackdown on Hamas activities in the West Bank in recent days, as well as large-scale arrest raids in response to widespread protests and ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppressionand disproportionate response... conflict. More than ten Hamas activists were arrested in the pre-dawn hours on May 20 alone, including prominent Paleostinian politician Naif Rajoub, a Shin Bet spokesperson told The Times of Israel at the time. It is unclear how many were later released. Hamas this week called for Paleostinians to hold a "Day of Rage" on Friday in order to confront what it called "settlers’ aggression" and the "storming of the al-Aqsa Mosque" in Jerusalem. Despite the ceasefire mostly holding between Israel and the terror group in the Gaza Strip, the Hamas leadership was apparently still pushing for further unrest in the region. On Wednesday, Iyad al-Bozom, spokesman for the Hamas-run interior ministry in Gaza, said two more Hamas combatants died while dismantling Israeli ordnance in the enclave. Posted by: trailing wife 2021-06-03 |
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