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Former minister placed in administrative detention

Wednesday 18-July-2018

The Israeli authorities on Wednesday approved the administrative detention of the former minister for prisoners’ affairs Wasfi Qubaha for five months.

Family sources affirmed to the PIC reporter that Qubaha was placed in administrative detention according to which he is held without charge or trial.

The former minister was arrested last Thursday from his family house in Jenin after being violently stormed by dozens of Israeli soldiers.

His arrest came only five months after his last release from Israeli jails the sources added.

Qubaha a prominent leader in Hamas Movement has been repeatedly arrested by Israeli forces and has spent a total of 15 years in Israeli prisons mostly in administrative detention.

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