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| Israel arrests senior Hamas leader in West Bank |
| 2020-10-04 |
| [IsraelTimes] Terror group and its rival Fatah both claim arrest of Hassan Youssef for ’renewed activity’ is aimed at interfering with Paleostinian reconciliation talks. Hassan Youssef, the leader of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, in the West Bank and one of the terror group’s founding members, was arrested Friday morning at his house in Ramallah by Israeli security forces. In response to a query by The Times of Israel, a security source confirmed the arrest and alleged that Youssef had been involved in "renewed Hamas activity." No public charges have yet been filed. The Shin Bet domestic security service, which is responsible for counterterrorism activities in the West Bank and the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppressionand disproportionate response... Strip, declined to comment. Since helping found the Hamas terror movement in the 1980s, Youssef has been arrested numerous times and spent years in Israeli prisons. While still behind bars in 2006, he was elected to the Paleostinian parliament. Hamas has consistently claimed that Youssef is only active in its political wing, not its military wing, and has no involvement in terrorist activities. Both branches of the terror group avowedly seek to destroy Israel. In a statement condemning Youssef’s arrest, Hamas claimed that Israel had arrested the West Bank commander for purely political reasons. The rival Fatah and Hamas movements have been at odds since 2007, when a bloody struggle for control of Gaza led to Hamas expelling the Fatah-dominated Paleostinian Authority from the coastal enclave. Several rounds of unity talks over the past 13 years to reconcile Fatah and Hama have failed to bridge the gaps between them. After reconciliation talks in Istanbul in late September, the two rival movements agreed to set a date for Paleostinian legislative elections within the next six months. Such announcements have fizzled out before, but this has not stopped bigwigs in both Fatah and Hamas from claiming this time is different. "We hereby affirm that the arrest Sheikh Hassan Youssef by the occupation will not stop the path of unity for which he worked for the past two months," Hamas said in a statement. Fatah Secretary-General Jibril Rajoub also condemned Youssef’s arrest, accusing Israeli authorities of what he called "tampering" with the ongoing Paleostinian reconciliation talks "This arrest is a continuation of the occupation’s approach to arresting dozens of our Paleostinian people every day, and a continuation of the continuous aggression against our people for decades. It comes within the framework of attempting to tamper with Paleostinian affairs and influence the achievement of national unity," Rajoub said. |
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