IOF troops arrest Hamas leader Majed Hasan, Islamic Jihad leader Bassam al-Saadi and four others

IOF troops arrest Hamas leader Majed Hasan

[ 06/05/2011 - 07:32 PM ]

RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- IOF troops arrested on Thursday morning prominent Hamas leader Majed Hasan (47 years) from his home in the southern West Bank city of Ramallah.

Sources close to Hasan’s family said that the IOF troops raided the house and ransacked it, confiscating computers and books, then the intelligence officer who accompanied the IOF troops told him that he was under arrest.

Hasan, who is a prominent Islamic figure in the West Bank, was arrested by the occupation and the PA security in the West Bank on several occasions. He spent more than eight years in occupation jails. His wife, Nada al-Jayyousi, who is active in the field of Islamic propagation, was also detained by the Israeli occupation for several months in the past.

The Israeli occupation has stepped up arrests amongst Hamas and Islamic Jihad supporters in the past couple of days, arresting two leaders from the Islamic Jihad and a number of activists from both movements in Ramallah, Jenin and Nablus.

IOF troops arrest Islamic Jihad leader Bassam al-Saadi and four others

[ 06/05/2011 - 06:53 PM ]

JENIN, (PIC)-- IOF troops arrested on Friday morning Sheikh Bassam al-Saadi, member of the political leadership of the Islamic Jihad, who was released from Israeli occupation jails only two months ago, along with four others from the Jenin refugee camp and the village of Silet al-Hartheyyah in the northern West Bank.

Local sources told PIC that IOF troops raided the refugee camp at 4 o’clock in the morning amid firing of live ammunition in the air and stun grenades to terrorise the people.

The locals added that the IOF troops surrounded the house of Sheikh Bassam al-Saadi (49 years), before raiding the it, arresting Saadi and ransacking his home.

The sources also said that the IOF troops drove through the streets terrorising the population, leaving the camp at 6 o’clock in the morning.

Meanwhile, occupation military vehicles in large numbers raided the village of Silet al-Hartheyyah to the West of Jenin and raided the homes of a number of Islamic Jihad affiliates and arrested four of them.

The sources said that all those arrested have been previously detained by the Israeli occupation and that their families were questioned during the raid.

This comes only one day after the arrest of the Islamic Jihad representative in Jenin Tariq Qaadan from the village of Arraba to the south of Jenin.




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