The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested the Hamas leader Sheikh Hussein Abu Kweik after storming his house in the town of Beitunia near Ramallah on Thursday.
Abu Kweik is a Hamas leader in the West Bank who was constantly threatened with arrest by the IOF. He spent at least 11 years in Israeli prisons intermittently and was one of the deportees of Marj al-Zohour in 1992 along with 417 Hamas and Islamic Jihad members.
Abu Kweik survived an Israeli assassination attempt during the Al-Aqsa Intifada back in 2000. However his wife and three children were killed in the Israeli aerial bombing of his car.
