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IOF kidnaps MP Ibrahim Dahbour near Jenin

Thursday 23-March-2017

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Wednesday evening kidnapped Palestinian lawmaker Ibrahim Dahbour from Hamas at a roadblock near Arraba town southwest of Jenin city in the West Bank.

Rahma Dahbour the lawmaker’s daughter told Quds Press that Israeli soldiers rounded up her father at a makeshift checkpoint on a road near Arraba and confiscated the car he was driving.

Two other Hamas-affiliated lawmakers had been kidnapped from their homes earlier during the current month.

On March 9 Israeli soldiers stormed at dawn the house of MP Samira Halayka in Ash-Shuyukh town northeast of al-Khalil province and took her prisoner.

MP Mohamed Attal was also kidnapped from his home on March 21 in ad-Dhahiriya southwest of al-Khalil.

With these new arrests the number of Palestinian lawmakers in Israeli jails has risen to 12 10 of them from the Hamas Movement.

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