IOF troops kidnap ex-detainee who spent 15 years in Israeli jails

[ 14/04/2009 - 02:03 PM ]

AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces kidnapped on Monday ex-detainee Ra'ed Shahin, 38, after raiding and ransacking his home in Dora city, south of Al-Khalil, at the pretext of being affiliated with Hamas. His family said that Shahin was released two years ago after he spent 15 years in Israeli jails. In Nablus district, Palestinian local sources reported that the IOF troops kidnapped at dawn Tuesday a Palestinian citizen from Qusin village in the district alleging that they found in his possession a pistol and a rifle. Other eyewitnesses said that IOF troops boarding 10 Israeli military vehicles stormed Madma village, south of Nablus, at an early hour today, closed the northern entrance to the village for several hours and kidnapped eight young men, six of them high school students, during raids on a number of homes. A Palestinian youth was also detained at the Atara roadblock near Bir Zeit after IOF soldiers suspected him then found in his possession a knife, according to the Hebrew media.