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<h1 class="title">Nidal Abu Aker and 17 more Palestinians arrested
by occupation forces in continuing raids</h1>
<p><b><small><small><small><small><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://samidoun.ca/2014/06/nidal-abu-aker-and-17-more-palestinians-arrested-by-occupation-forces-in-continuing-raids/">http://samidoun.ca/2014/06/nidal-abu-aker-and-17-more-palestinians-arrested-by-occupation-forces-in-continuing-raids/</a></small></small></small></small></b><br>
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<p>In the early morning hours of June 28, occupation forces’ arrest
raids continued against Palestinians in the West Bank, with 18
arrested in Ramallah, Bethlehem and Nablus areas.</p>
<p>Among those targeted for arrest was Nidal Abu Aker, 47, of
Dheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem area. Abu Aker is a prominent
leftist leader in the area, a former prisoner and administrative
detainee, and a journalist with Sawt al-Wihda (Voice of Unity)
radio, the only radio station that broadcasts directly from
Dheisheh refugee camp. The home of Nidal’s colleague, Mohamed
Salah, in the radio project was also raided. A 15-year-old boy was
hit by a concussion grenade fired by occupation soldiers as they
entered the refugee camp to abduct Nidal Abu Aker and Shadi Issa
Ma’ali.</p>
<p>Two others were abducted in Bethlehem, Waleed Bostanji and Ahmed
Qasem al-Sheikh. In Ramallah, Yahya Salah Atta, court clerk of the
Ramallah municipal court, was abducted, while in Nablus, An-Najah
university student Mohammed Jamal Nasser, 22 years old and a
former prisoner, was abducted.</p>
<p>Abu Aker, a prominent leader in Dheisheh who is deeply rooted in
the community, has been targeted repeatedly by occupation forces
for arrest. He was first arrested at the age of 14, in 1982. Since
that time he was arrested on numerous occasions and served 13
years in Israeli jails, including over 9 years in various periods
of administrative detention, held without charge or trial.</p>
<p>In 1990, his brother, <a
href="https://avoicefrompalestine.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/our-living-dead/"
target="_blank">Mohammad Abu Aker, died at the age of 19</a> one
year after being shot by occupation forces in the camp, as a
result of his profound injuries.</p>
<p>Nidal Abu Aker’s arrest was filmed; his daughter can be heard
crying for him:</p>
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<p>Commenting on his own prior experiences in prison, Nidal Abu Aker
spoke about the revolutionary education Palestinian political
prisoners perform among themselves :</p>
<blockquote>
<p>“Before being in prison, I was connected emotionally to the
national struggle, but in jail I became connected to it
intellectually and ideologically. It was in prison that I read
the theory. Love of the homeland became more rooted, for two
reasons: my discussions with other people and my reading
pamphlets and books.” – Nidal Abu Aker on his first prolonged
imprisonment, quoted in Maya Rosenfeld, <a
href="http://books.google.ca/books?id=a-TVxjP63xEC&pg=PA252&lpg=PA252&dq=nidal+abu+aker&source=bl&ots=ChKSI2gpsO&sig=xCxlZgFWUYz13s8CiFFrYH4Y1pk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sNSuU-j9DKeS7AbxhICgAg&ved=0CDgQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=nidal%20abu%20aker&f=false"
target="_blank"><em>Confronting the Occupation</em></a>.</p>
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<p>The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine issued a
statement on the arrest, saying that “the arrest of the leader
Nidal Abu Aker and dozens of our people in the West Bank will not
deter the Front from its obligation to continue the struggle and
resist the occupation….the Zionist occupation arrests the best
children of the Palestinian people, held in detention camps that
cannot extinguish their flame of resistance. The Palestinian
prisoners are a solid core of resistance to the occupation, as we
have seen in the strike of the administrative detainees…as well as
the continuing strike of Ayman Al-Tabeesh, which has exceeded
three months.”</p>
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