[ 17/01/2010 - 11:10 AM ]
Al-KHALIL, (PIC)-- The Hebrew radio reported that Ayoub Al-Qawasma, one of Israel’s most wanted resistance leaders affiliated with Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, was kidnapped at an early hour Sunday by Mahmoud Abbas’s militias in Al-Khalil city.
The radio noted that armed clashes took place during the attempts of these militias to kidnap Qawasma.
Eyewitnesses told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that Abbas’s militias stormed after midnight the neighborhood of Al-Khalil university amid intensive gunfire and encircled the house of Qawasma, who was wanted by Israel for more than 12 years.
They said that they heard gunfire in the vicinity of the house and the nearby mosque and saw Abbas’s militias opening fire at the mosque before they broke into it and searched some other homes in the neighborhood.
For its part, the Movement of Hamas confirmed the news of Qawasma’s arrest, pointing out that the militias of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in Ramallah had tried to kidnap him many times, the first time was in 1998, and kept chasing him since then.
In Nablus, Abbas’s militias summoned and kidnapped many citizens for protesting the Friday Khutba (sermon) delivered at Al-Salahi mosque in the city after the preacher verbally abused Sheikh Yousuf Al-Qaradwi.
They also kidnapped in the city a citizen called Bashar Mansour, the brother of Al-Qassam fighters Omar and Jamal Mansour who were killed by Israeli troops.
Two other citizens from the village of Saida in Tulkarem called Munir Radad and Nawaf Radad were kidnapped by Abbas militias after storming their homes.
A teacher called Abdelrahman Al-Shawawrah was also taken hostage until his brother turn himself in to the militias in Bethlehem.
They also kidnapped in Jenin and Tulkarem three mosque preachers after their refusal to comply with orders issued by Abbas’s ministry of religious affairs demanding them to insult Sheikh Qaradawi during a Friday sermon.
The militias reportedly summoned many mosque preachers in different West Bank cities for the same reason.
For its part, the Palestinian government in Gaza on Saturday held Mahmoud Abbas and the central committee of Fatah responsible for the smear and incitement campaign waged against Sheikh Yousuf Al-Qaradawi, affirming that such positions do not represent the Palestinian people.
The government also disowned and condemned the campaign waged by the illegal government in Ramallah against Sheikh Qaradawi.
It said that Sheikh Qaradawi is one of the most prominent men in the Muslim world who defends and supports the Palestinian cause in word and deed.
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