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Manhunt as Israeli man goes missing in West Bank
Fears man may have been kidnapped or killed by Palestinian militants
Israeli soldiers checking Palestinian houses in the West Bank after reports an Israeli may have been kidnapped by Palestinian militants. Photograph: Abed Al Hashlamoun/EPA
Mark Weiss
First published: Fri, Apr 3, 2015, 01:00
Israeli soldiers launched a massive manhunt in Palestinian areas of the southern West Bank last night after an Israeli civilian went missing after entering a Palestinian village.
The military feared the man, a 22-year-old resident of the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, may have been kidnapped or killed by Palestinian militants.
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Israeli forces abduct Palestinian lawmaker in West Bank
Thu Apr 2, 2015 7:52AM
Khalida Kan'an Muhammad Jarrar, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Palestinian Legislative Council
Israeli soldiers have reportedly abducted a Palestinian lawmaker after storming her house in the occupied West Bank.
Early Thursday, some 60 Israeli forces raided the house of Khalida Kan'an Muhammad Jarrar, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), in the city of Ramallah and took her to an unknown location.
Media sources in Ramallah said Israeli forces kicked down the door of Jarrar’s residence and held her husband in a separate room while arresting the legislator.
Jarrar is one of the most outspoken critics of the Israeli occupation and has repeatedly slammed the Tel Aviv regime’s atrocities against Palestinians.
The Israeli regime has been denying the lawmaker the right to travel outside the occupied Palestinian territories since 1988. She campaigned for months in 2010 before receiving the permission to travel to Jordan for medical treatment.
In August last year, Jarrar received a “special supervision order” from the Israeli military, instructing her to leave Ramallah to the West bank city of Jericho.
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