At least four Palestinians were arrested by the Palestinian Authority (PA) forces in the West Bank while four others continue their hunger strike in protest at their arbitrary detention.
Hamas said in a Friday statement that the PA Preventive Forces in Jenin arrested the ex-prisoner and imam of Tawalba Mosque Ahmed Shafiq Abu Zinah after they opened fire at a bus owned by a local kindergarten which he was driving.
On Thursday evening the PA intelligence forces in Qalqilya arrested the ex-prisoner Mohamed Ata Zahran from his workplace. Youngster Mootassem al-Awawdeh was also arrested by the PA forces after they broke into his family home in al-Khalil.
At the same time Palestinian young man Ahmed Abdul Aziz was arrested by the PA preventive forces in Nablus just three days after he turned himself in for questioning.
Pharmacy student Moussa Dweikat has been held in PA lock-ups for three consecutive days.
Meanwhile the PA Preventive Forces in Jericho extended the remand of two students—Amer Abu Rumi and Baraa Oudeh—and a doctor—Thaer Mahariq—for 15 days. All three have started an open-ended hunger strike over being detained with neither charge nor trial.
Palestinian detainee Shadi al-Namoura has also been on an open-ended hunger-strike for seven days running in response to his arbitrary incarceration in Jericho prison for three consecutive months.
