Two Hamas officials kidnapped in Jenin and Ramallah cities

2011/05/09

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnapped on Saturday senior Hamas official Khaled Al-Hajj in an ambush south of Jenin city as well as Sheikh Majed Hasan from Hamas after a raid on his home in Ramallah city.

An informed source told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that a large number of Israeli troops on board of six military jeeps ambushed Khaled Al-Hajj who was inside a car driven by Hamas official Abdulbasit Al-Hajj near Arraba village south of Jenin.

The troops stopped the car the two Hamas officials were inside, confiscated their IDs, and rounded up Khaled Al-Hajj and told Abdulbasit to follow their jeeps.

When the Israeli jeeps arrived at Dotan camp near Arraba village, they took Khaled in chains into the military camp, drove Abdulbaset to a nearby checkpoint and told him to go home after confiscating his car.

Khaled Al-Hajj had spent more than 10 years in Israeli jails.

At an early hour on Thursday, the Israeli occupation forces also kidnapped another Hamas official called Majed Hasan from his home in Ramallah city and took him to an unknown destination.

An official source from Hamas in the West Bank told the PIC that the Israeli occupation started to carry out an expected scenarios aimed at preventing Hamas from taking part in the political life after it reconciled with its rivals in the West Bank.

In another incident, a group of Israeli troops kidnapped at dawn Saturday journalist and director of Palestine newspaper Waleed Khaled from his home in Skaka town in Salfit city, according to Ahrar center for prisoners' studies.

Khaled was released last January after he spent four years in Israeli jails.

Source: Ahlul Bayt News Agency.
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