The Israeli military court of Ofer has extended the detention of Jihad al-Faqih head of the Palestinian Authority (PA) intelligence agency in Jerusalem suburbs until next Wednesday October 24.
According to the Palestinian Prisoner Society the Israeli prosecutor accused Faqih of kidnapping Palestinian citizens holding Israeli IDs and interrogating them about their involvement in buying real estate on behalf of Jewish groups.
Faqih for his part denied the charges leveled against him during the interrogation and considered his detention politically motivated.
Israeli soldiers on Sunday kidnapped the PA intelligence official at a makeshift checkpoint near al-Judeira village northwest of Occupied Jerusalem.
