Israeli soldiers disguised as Arabs kidnaped on Monday two Palestinian ex-detainees from al-Lubban al-Gharbi village northwest of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
According to local sources plain-clothes soldiers intercepted the car Musaab Samhan and Mohamed Radi both ex-detainees were traveling in pointed their guns at them and then rounded them up.
Samhan and Radi were en route to their workplace in the nearby town of Shuqba.
Members of such Israeli undercover unit often disguise themselves as Arabs or Palestinians to carry out assassination or kidnaping operations.
They are known locally as Musta’ribeen in Arabic or Mista’arvim in Hebrew which is a word that means people or soldiers who pretend to be Arabs and are specialized in Arabic language and culture.
