RAMALLAH (PIC)– IOF troops at dawn Tuesday kidnapped the Hamas political leader Sheikh Bajes Nakhle from his home in Jalazon refugee camp north of Ramallah locals reported.
They said that tens of IOF army vehicles accompanied by foot patrols besieged the home of Nakhle and searched it thoroughly before kidnapping the Sheikh.
Nakhle 40 has spent 12 year of his life in Israeli occupation jails and was arrested 15 times at the hands of IOF troops. He was released from latest arrest early January this year.
IOF soldiers also arrested Khalil Barfili 35 the director of the Palestinian prisoners support society that was closed down by the IOF command a few months ago from his home in the same refugee camp.
Barfili who has been arrested six times before is married and has four children.
The IOF soldiers arrested the 30-year-old Iyad Al-Safi a driver also from Jalazon in the same raid after searching his home.
The IOF units rounded up 17 Palestinians from various West Bank areas Tuesday morning including seven of one family in Al-Khalil village of Deir Samet.
In the Gaza Strip IOF soldiers Monday night kidnapped three Palestinian workers who were near the borders with the 1948 occupied lands east of Breij refugee camp in central Gaza PA security reported.
