Israel takes more hostages to pressure Hamas to release terrorist soldier
By Khalid Amayreh
Source: PIC
Date: 19/03/2009 - 08:35 AM
"AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation army on Thursday raided many parts of the West Bank, abducting an undisclosed number of political leaders and lawmakers associated with the Palestinian Islamic movement.
Palestinian sources said heavily armed troops raided homes of Palestinian politicians shortly before dawn, terrorizing families and vandalizing property.
The troops arrested many political leaders and politicians including the former Palestinian deputy Prime Minister Nasseruddin al-Shaer, a lawmaker and university professor.
Al-Shaer’s wife said in a telephone interview from their home in Nablus that “ill-behaving soldiers” stormed the home at two o’clock.
“They stayed at the home for at least two hours and then they arrested my husband and left.”
Al-Shaer had been taken hostage several times in connection with his affiliation with the Islamic resistance movement, Hamas, and his opposition to the terrorist Israeli occupation of the Palestinian homeland.
Sources close to the movement said occupation troops raided the towns of al-Khalil (Hebron), Bethlehem, Ramallah in addition to Nablus. These towns are under a nominal Palestinian Authority (PA) control.
Other hostages reportedly abducted by occupation forces include Adnan Asfur, Prof. Issam al Ashkar, lawmaker Ayman Daraghmeh, lawmaker Abdul Jabbar al Fokaha, Mazen Rimawi. In al-Khalil, two lawmakers, Prof. Azzam Salhab and Nezar Ramadan, were abducted. In Bethlehem MP Khaled Tafesh was also abducted.
Both Ramadan and Salhab were only recently freed from a lengthy incarceration in Israeli dungeons and detention camps.
A Hamas spokesman in Bethlehem described the latest abductions as “acts befitting gangs and common criminals.”
“This is another proof that Israel is a criminal gang, not a state. So, this is another reason why Hamas will not recognize Israel,” said Yousuf (not his real name).
Israel, a state where the fascist-minded military establishment controls the justice system, routinely rounds up Palestinian activists and their relatives and holds them as hostages or bargaining chips for the purpose of pressuring the Palestinian society to stop its enduring struggle for freedom and independence from Jewish colonialism and military occupation.
Israel continues to detain as many as 10,000 Palestinian political and resistance prisoners in detention camps all over the apartheid state.
Many of the prisoners, including nearly 40 lawmakers, are held for years without charge or trial.
Human rights organizations estimate that Israel arrested as many as 800,000 Palestinians since its occupation of the West Bank since 1967.
On Tuesday, the Israeli government instructed the “Justice Minister” to concoct ways to round up Palestinian activists from the West Bank in order to pressure the Hamas government to release an Israeli military prisoner.
Earlier this year, Israel waged a Nazi-like blitzkrieg against the Gaza Strip during which the Israeli occupation army carried out a series of massacres against the civilian population.
The 22-day campaign, in which lethal and internationally-prohibited weapons were used, killed more than 1,400 Palestinians, the vast bulk of them innocent civilians, including hundreds of children.
One of the undeclared goals of the blitz was to free the imprisoned soldier."
Press TV report (requires Windows Media or Real Player):
Israel rounds up Hamas leaders in West BankThu, 19 Mar 2009 17:00:32
Sari Al-Khalili, Press TV, Ramallah
This is a BridgesTVdotcom report on YouTube [its usual reports are more like a main stream media bs than an independent group]
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