IOF soldiers detain eldest son of MP Halaika

[ 10/11/2010 - 12:04 PM ]

AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) broke into the house of MP Samira Al-Halaika and took away her eldest son Anas in a pre dawn raid on Wednesday, the MP said in a press release. She said that an IOF unit in four military vehicles and a white civilian car stormed the Qafan Khamis suburb east of Al-Shuyukh town in Al-Khalil district at 0300 am Wednesday and kidnapped her son Anas, 24. She said that the soldiers locked up all her family members in one room and summoned her along with her husband and told them that they will take away their son Anas. The lawmaker noted that her son was supposed to meet an Israeli intelligence official on Wednesday in Eztion on Wednesday morning. Halaika held the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) fully responsible for any repercussions that might befall her son, who was released from the jails of security militias loyal to de facto Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas on 5/9/2010 after 45 days in solitary confinement, which had a very bad psychological impact on him due to the continued isolation and cruel treatment. She appealed to all human rights groups to intervene and demand an end to the suffering of her family due to the practices of the IOA and Abbas's militias. The IOF had previously detained Anas in October 2005 and released him in November 2006 before Abbas's militias repeatedly summoned him before holding him in custody on 16/9/2009 for one month and apprehended him again on 21/7/2010 before his release on 5/9/2010. Anas is studying journalism in Al-Khalil University. He is in the fourth grade.