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News ID: 57661
Publish Date : 23 September 2018 - 21:36

Zionist Troops Detain Fatah Movement Secretary in al-Quds

WEST BANK (Dispatches) – Zionist troops detained the Secretary of the Fatah movement, Yasser Darwish, predawn Sunday, in the Palestinian neighborhood of al-Eesawiyya, in occupied East al-Quds.
According to Palestinian Prisoner’s Society, prior to the detention of Darwish, large numbers of Zionist troops stormed the neighborhood and raided his home.
PPS confirmed that, during the raid, Zionist troops thoroughly searched Darwish’s home and damaged his personal belongings, including the furniture.
Muhammad Abu al-Hummus, member of a local follow-up committee, said that Darwish was detained by Zionist troops and taken to an Israeli detention center for interrogation.
Abu al-Hummus added, according to Ma’an News Agency, that following Darwish’s detention, confrontations broke out, among Palestinian youth and Zionist troops, in which the troops fired sound bombs towards the neighborhood repeatedly, while youth threw stones.
In another development, Zionist occupation authorities, on Sunday, banned the Palestinian Minister of Education, Sabri Saydam, from entering the village of Beit Iksa, to the northwest of al-Quds.
In a press release, the ministry said that Zionist occupation troops banned Saydam, and the accompanying delegation, from entering the village through its main gate, at the occupying regime’s segregation wall.
According to Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency, the village is part of the occupied West Bank, but is located on the area annexed to the occupied territories by the apartheid wall.
Therefore, anyone trying to enter the area shall pass through the Israeli checkpoint separating the village from its Palestinian surroundings in the rest of the West Bank.