OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces and intelligence agents broke into the home of detained Jerusalemite MP Ahmed Attoun in Sur Baher village and took away seven of his relatives including two brothers.
The father of the MP told the Quds media center that a big number of Israeli policemen and border police accompanied intelligence agents and took away two of his other sons in the raid that took place before dawn Tuesday adding that the police stormed the nearby homes of his brothers as well.
He said that the police forces detained five of Attoun’s cousins adding that an intelligence officer told him that they had a list of names of his family to be arrested but did not give reasons for the arrest.
The father charged that the Israeli occupation authority wanted to spoil the family’s joy with the release of one of Attoun’s brothers in the recent prisoners’ exchange deal.
Israeli forces kidnapped MP Attoun from his sit-in tent pitched inside the premises of the Red Cross in Jerusalem last month. The lawmaker refused an Israeli court offer to release him in return for leaving the holy city.
