With no regard for the holy month of Ramadan the Palestinian Authority (PA) continued to carry out political arrests in the West Bank kidnapping an ex-detainee and summoning another.
In Nablus the PA preventive security apparatus rounded up an ex-detainee called Abdul-Rahman Bishtawi a few minutes before Iftar.
The same security apparatus also summoned another ex-detainee called Husam al-Bistami for interrogation on Saturday morning.
In a related context the PA intelligence agency extended the detention of Mahmoud Kharouf an ex-detainee for another 15 days and transferred him to one of its jails in al-Khalil.
Prisoner Kharouf is deprived of seeing his lawyer.