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IOF kidnaps Gazan at crossing orders sick mother back home

Wednesday 18-January-2017

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Tuesday evening kidnapped a Palestinian youth as he tried to pass through the Beit Hanoun (Erez) border-crossing in northern Gaza Strip.

A PIC news correspondent said 25-year-old Omar Abu Assad was kidnapped by the IOF as he accompanied his sick mother for treatment in the occupied West Bank via the Beit Hanoun crossing.

The occupation soldiers ordered Omar’s sick mother to go back home.

At the same time another Palestinian youth was kidnapped by the IOF from Jenin’s western town of Rummaneh as he passed through a makeshift military checkpoint pitched on the accessroad to Haifa.

The arrestee identified as 28-year-old Rateb al-Refai was kidnapped while driving near the abruptly-pitched checkpoint.

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