[Pnews] Israeli Forces Arrest 2 PLC Members and 20 Other Palestinians Affiliated to Hamas

[Prisoner News]

  Israeli Forces Arrest 2 PLC Members and 20 Other Palestinians
  Affiliated to Hamas

/(this in the wake of releasing 26 political prisoners held since before 
the First Oslo Agreement of 1993 - CM)/

author Tuesday October 29, 2013 00:59author by Palestinian Center for 
Human Rights
http://www.imemc.org/article/66321

    The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns the
    Israeli forces' detention of 2 Members of the Palestinian
    Legislative Council (PLC) from the Change and Reform Bloc of Hamas:
    Nizar Abdul Aziz Abdul Hamid Ramadan (53); and Mohammed Maher Yusef
    Bader (55), both from Hebron, in addition to 20 other Palestinians.

The arrests include active university students and a number of persons 
affiliated to Hamas, in different areas in the West Bank.

PCHR emphasizes this arrest campaign constitutes a form of collective 
punishment against the Palestinian civilians, which is prohibited under 
article 33 of the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention.

According to investigations conducted by PCHR, on Monday morning, 28 
October 2013, Israeli forces moved into different areas in the West 
Bank, including Hebron, Nablus, Tulkarm and Tubas, and arrested 20 
Palestinian civilians.

In Hebron, Israeli forces arrested Ramadan (53), Bader (55), and Dr. 
'Adnan Yunis Abdul Majid Abu Tabbanah (43), Mos'ab Nidal Mohammed 
al-Zgheer (21) and Mos'ab Khamis Abdul Khaleq Qafisha (19).

In Nablus, they arrested 10 civilians:

1. Amjad Bushkar (24), a student at the Faculty of Education and 
representative of the Islamic Bloc at an-Najah National University;
2. Amir Mohammed Ishtaiya (24), a student at the Faculty of Arts and 
member of the Students' Union at an-Najah National University;
3. Abdul Rahman Nasouh Ishtaiya (29), a student at the Faculty of 
Engineering at an-Najah National University;
4. Mo'athe Abu Baker (22), a student at the Faculty of Science at 
an-Najah National University;
5. Abdul Rahman al-Bashtawi (23), a student at the Faculty of Economics 
at an-Najah National University;
6. Kamal Hussam Qatalouni (25), a student at the Faculty of Shari'a at 
an-Najah National University;
7. Amir al-Tambour (28);
8. Mas'oud al-Kouni (26);
9. 'Awni al-Shakhshir (23); and
10. Samir Saleh Abu Shu'aib (23).

In Tulkarm, Israeli forces arrested Anas Manna' Ibrahim Ghanem (22), 
from Tulkarm, and Mahmoud Dawood Raddad (23), from Saida village, 
northeast of the city.

They also arrested Basem Rashid Mostafa Hamdan (35) and Abdullah Bani 
Ouda (23), a student at the Faculty of Information Technology at 
al-Najah National University, from Tamoun village, southeast of Tubas.

At approximately 10:30, Israeli military undercover units sneaked into 
Deir Sharaf village, northwest of Nablus, by a Volkswagen minibus with a 
Palestinian registration plate. The vehicle stopped in front of al-Amani 
butchery at Nablus-Tulkarm-Jenin intersection.

Israeli soldiers stepped out of the vehicle and pointed their guns at 3 
young men in their twenties. The young men were sitting in the 
abovementioned butchery having breakfast when Israeli undercover members 
kidnapped them and took them to an unknown destination.

PCHRs fieldworker has not been able to identify them so far. In the 
meantime, Israeli forces confiscated cameras established in the 
butchery, Mousa supermarket and Wad al-Sha'ir butchery.

PCHR condemns this arrest campaign and:

1. Stresses that it is part of reprisals and collective punishment 
exercised against Palestinian civilians, which is prohibited under the 
Fourth Geneva Convention;

2. Calls for the immediate release of the PLC members and all 
Palestinian ministers detained in Israeli jails.

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