The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Thursday morning kidnaped secretary of the Fatah Movement in Jerusalem Shadi Matwar during his participation in a sit-in organized in solidarity with Jerusalem mayor Adnan Ghaith who has been in detention for over a week.
Eyewitnesses said that police officers dispersed the solidarity sit-in and arrested Matawar from outside the Israeli magistrate court in Jerusalem as a court session was being held for mayor Ghaith.
Later the court extended Ghaith’s detention for five days at the pretext of giving the police more time to interrogate him.
Mayor Ghaith and other Jerusalemite officials from the Palestinian Authority and Fatah have been in detention for the second consecutive week.
Earlier a number of West Bank citizens were kidnaped by Israeli soldiers in overnight arrest campaigns.
According to local sources the IOF kidnaped at dawn three young men from their homes in Jabel Hindaza area in southern Bethlehem.
In Nablus the IOF stormed the towns of Salem Rujeib and Tell and kidnaped five citizens from their homes.
Another citizen was kidnaped from the southern area of al-Khalil city.
