Hamas lawmaker, 15 Others Kidnapped by IOF, Al-Duwaik Hospitalized, Barghouthi denied entry to Jerusalem

Israeli occupation forces kidnap a Palestinian lawmaker, 15 others, in West Bank

Date: 06 / 11 / 2007 Time: 11:18

[Ma'anImages] Hebron – Ma'an –

Israeli occupation forces seized a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, along with nine other Palestinians throughout the West Bank.

In Hebron, Israeli occupation forces detained forty-seven-year-old Hamas lawmaker Hatim Qafisheh after storming his home in the southern part of the city.

Qafisheh's brother, Fayiz, said Israeli occupation soldiers broke into the house only to find that Qafisheh was not there. They reportedly waited half an hour until Qafisheh returned from the hospital, where he had been accompanying his niece.

Qafisheh was detained and then released by Israel in the summer of 2006. In 1992, Israeli authorities deported him to Lebanon. He has spent a total of more than eight years in Israeli prisons.

In the city of Nablus, Israeli occupation soldiers kidnapped fifty-six-year-old Hamas leader Sheikh Mahir Al-Kharaz. Five other Palestinians were detained in the same raid.

Israeli occupation forces also kidnapped two Palestinians in the city of Qalqilia, six in Ramallah, and two others from the northern city of Jenin.

kidnapped PLC speaker hospitalized

Date: 06 / 11 / 2007 Time: 12:17

Bethlehem – Ma'an –

The Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), Aziz Al-Duwaik, has been hospitalized in the Israeli city of Ramla following a deterioration in his health, his wife told Agence France Presse on Monday.

Al-Duwaik is diabetic and suffers from kidney stones. The PLC speaker will reportedly remain in the hospital for two weeks in order to undergo tests.

The PLC has not been able to muster a quorum since internecine fighting broke out in the Gaza Strip last June. Approximately 40 Palestinian lawmakers, most from Hamas, remain in Israeli occupation prisons after they had been kidnapped by Israeli occupation forces.

Mustafa Barghouthi denied entry to Jerusalem

Date: 06 / 11 / 2007 Time: 09:49

Ramallah – Ma'an –

The Israeli occupation government barred the Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative, Mustafa Barghouthi from entering Jerusalem on Monday evening.

Barghouthi was scheduled to participate in a televised debate with Israeli occupation government officials on the Al-Hurra satellite network.

Barghouthi said this was the tenth time he has been disallowed from entering the occupied Palestinian city of East Jerusalem.

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