Thursday, May 20, 2010

IOA releases Abu Tir, IOF soldiers round up 7 citizens

[ 20/05/2010 - 09:25 AM ]


OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) released Jerusalemite MP Mohammed Abu Tir after 43 months of incarceration during which he was moved from one IOA jail to another.
Abu Tir, 59, has spent almost 30 years in aggregate in IOA jails and was charged in his last imprisonment sentence of affiliation with the Hamas parliamentary bloc.
Abu Tir was detained in a campaign that did not spare any of Hamas elected MPs in the West Bank on 29/6/2006.
Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued their daily arrest of Palestinian citizens in the West Bank and rounded up seven of them at dawn Thursday.
The Israeli radio said that the IOF troops detained two in Bethlehem and five in Taku village, Bethlehem district, all of one family and all were 17 years old except one who was 20 years old.