Occupation forces rearrest Sheikh Raed Salah

[ 18/04/2011 - 09:05 AM ]

UMM AL-FAHM, (PIC)-- Israel occupation force (IOF) soldiers rearrested Islamic Movement chief Raed Salah Sunday evening at the Jericho crossing on charges of obstructing the work of Israeli security personnel.

According to sources in the Islamic Movement in 1948-occupied Palestine, the IOF soldiers arrested Salah along with Suleiman Ighbarya, who heads the Isra development and relief organization, Jamal Rashid, who chairs a Jerusalem reconstruction organization, and the wives of all three men while the group was on a return trip from Makkah after performing 'umrah', the minor pilgrimage in Islam. The group was released after a few hours, but Salah and his wife were kept in custody.

Ighbarya said Salah and his wife were provoked by the soldiers when they entered the crossing as his wife was subjected to a ”humiliating strip search”.

Salah intervened to defend his wife who refused to be strip searched, and he condemned the treatment used against his wife. The occupation forces then proceeded to arrest both Salah and wife alleging that they obstructed the work of security personnel, Ighbarya added.

Ighbarya suspected that the arrest was pre-arranged, as the Israeli occupation officers videotaped the entire incident from the moment Salah entered the crossing, an unprecedented measure taken against those returning from umrah.

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