Hawzah News Agency - (Occupied Palestine) - Israeli undercover agents have arrested a senior official of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) during an ambush in the occupied West Bank, a local media report says.
The Palestinian Information Center quoting local sources reported that plainclothes soldiers abducted Husam al-Razza in Huwara area of northern Nablus as he was en route to Ramallah city on Sunday evening.
Also in 2018, Razza was forcibly taken away by Israeli forces and spent over a year in administrative detention, with no trial or indictment. At the time, he went on hunger strike for more than a month in protest at his arbitrary detention.
Recently, Israeli soldiers disguised as municipal workers kidnapped Razza’s son, Bader, from his residence in Nablus. Bader had been taken prisoner several times in recent years.
Israeli forces frequently arrest Palestinians in large-scale raids after breaking into their homes across different neighborhoods in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem al-Quds. The circumstances surrounding the kidnappings are not yet known, but the Israeli forces carry out such swoops on a nearly daily basis, taking away Palestinians, whom the regime usually accuses of acting against its so-called interests.
Some 7,000 Palestinians are currently behind bars in 17 Israeli prisons and detention centers, according to reports. Most of the prisoners are being held without trial under so-called administrative detention, which is a policy according to which Palestinian inmates are kept in Israeli detention facilities without trial or charge. Some Palestinian prisoners have been held in administrative detention for up to 11 years.
Israeli settler runs over Palestinians' sheep, injures shepherd
Separately, a Palestinian shepherd survived after a settler tried to run over him in south of the West Bank on Sunday evening. The settler also rammed his car into a herd of sheep in an area near Yatta town in southern al-Khalil.
The shepherd, Ayed al-Shawahin, said that two sheep died and at least 10 others suffered injuries in the vehicular attack.
The occupied territories have witnessed a rise in settler violence against Palestinians in recent months.
In February, the United Nations said acts of violence and vandalism committed by Israeli settlers against Palestinians and their property had risen since the beginning of the year 2019.