The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnaped at dawn Tuesday former minister of Jerusalem affairs Khaled Abu Arafah a senior Hamas official from his temporary residence in Ramallah.
Abu Arafah who was exiled from Occupied Jerusalem following his release in 2014 had been jailed by the Israeli occupation authority several times before. He was released about one year ago after he spent 15 months in administrative detention.
The Israeli ministry of interior decided to withdraw his Jerusalem ID in May 2006 and on June 1 2010 a decision was issued to deport him and other Hamas officials from Jerusalem but he participated with a number of exiled lawmakers in a sit-in that lasted for 19 months at the headquarters of the Red Cross in Jerusalem which ended with his arrest in January 2012 and later he was released in January 2014 on condition of deportation. At the time he was transferred to Jenin and then to Ramallah where he currently resides.
