[Pnews] 18 more Palestinians arrested by occupation forces in continuing raids

[Prisoner News]

  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/*

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.

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.

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.

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.

In 1990, his brother, Mohammad Abu Aker, died at the age of 19 
<https://avoicefrompalestine.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/our-living-dead/> 
one year after being shot by occupation forces in the camp, as a result 
of his profound injuries.

Nidal Abu Aker's arrest was filmed; his daughter can be heard crying for 
him:

Commenting on his own prior experiences in prison, Nidal Abu Aker spoke 
about the revolutionary education Palestinian political prisoners 
perform among themselves :

    "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,
    /Confronting the Occupation/
    <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>.

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."

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