Ma'an – Fatah-allied Palestinian security forces seizes 13 people, including four Hamas members, near the West Bank city of Nablus, on Wednesday. The Palestinian Preventive Security Director for Nablus, Akram Rajoub. said his forces stormed the village of Yasid, north of Nablus. He said all of the detainees were suspected of ‘penal and security charges.’ Rajoub denied that the security forces came under fire in Yasid. He said, "It was only a heated argument between the security forces and a local family, and the security officers fired into the air in order to maintain control."
According to witnesses, the security forces used the building of the local council as interrogation center after a heated argument with the Thahir family who tried to prevent the arrest a man named Ammar Thahir. Hamas said Palestinian security forces detained 13 Hamas members in Yasid. |