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AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested during the last two days a Hamas leader and six Palestinians from different districts in the West Bank, and set up checkpoints at several main crossroads.

The IOF soldiers arrested on Saturday morning a Palestinian citizen at Etzion crossroad in the north of Al-Khalil in the West Bank, and transferred him, handcuffed and blindfolded, to an unknown destination, local sources said.

The Israeli TV second channel quoted an IOF spokesman as saying that “The Kfir Brigade", which operates in the West Bank, had also arrested on Friday five wanted citizens from different districts of the West Bank, and transferred them to investigation centers.

Meanwhile, the IOF soldiers have deployed in several neighborhoods and towns of Al-Khalil province and established several military checkpoints in a number of areas, on main crossroads, to arrest Palestinians and to search citizens' vehicles.

The IOF also arrested yesterday the leader in Hamas movement, Sheikh Jamal al-Tawil after searching his house and questioning his wife and daughter.

Tawil, who had been one of the deportees to Marj Al-Zouhour in 1992, has been arrested several times and served over ten years in Israeli occupation jails.