RAMALLAH (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Tuesday arrested the senior Hamas leader and prominent anti-occupation activist Hassan Youssef after they broke into his family home in the central West Bank province of Ramallah.
Youssef’s son Ouways said at least five Israeli army patrols cordoned off the family home shortly before they kidnapped his father.
Hassan Youssef 61 is a prominent anti-occupation activist in the West Bank and was arrested for over 15 times. He had served long sentences at the Israeli occupation jails and was lastly released in June after he had been incarcerated for nearly one year in Israeli lock-ups.
Israel’s abduction of Youssef comes as part of Israeli intents to crack down on Palestinian activists and force them to throw in the towel in the ongoing Jerusalem uprising flaring up across the occupied Palestinian territories in response to Israel’s mounting terrorism against Palestinian civilians and the holy al-Aqsa Mosque.
Meanwhile sources based in Ramallah’s town of Beitouna said the IOF troops further stormed the family home of prisoner Younes Saleh Abu Zweid who had allegedly been involved in an anti-occupation stabbing attack in Occupied Jerusalem on October 9.
