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RAMALLAH (Ma’an) – Undercover Israeli agents abducted a Palestinian activist affiliated to the Islamic Jihad movement from the village of Beit Liqya west of Ramallah on Monday afternoon.

Witnesses told a Ma’an reporter that 24-year-old Muhammad Salih Badr was inside a shop owned by his family when an Israeli-plated car pulled over and four unidentified guys got out and surrounded him. They pointed out that the agents started to beat Badr before they abducted him at gunpoint and fled the scene.

The Israeli agents confiscated Badr’s laptop and a mobile phone, according to the witnesses.

Badr, according to locals, was released from Israeli jail 10 months ago after serving four-and-a-half years. They said he was a close friend of Muhammad Assi who was shot dead by Israeli forces near Bilin west of Ramallah.

Badr is currently studying English at Birzeit University.

An Israeli army spokeswoman confirmed two arrests in the village.

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[Monday October 28, 2013] Uncover soldiers of the Israeli military kidnapped a member of the Islamic Jihad Movement, in Beit Leqia town, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah. The man is a friend of a Palestinian who was recently killed by the army.

Eyewitnesses said that the undercover soldiers abducted Mohammad Saleh Bader, 24, from a store run by his family in the town.

They said the soldiers, driving a civilian car carrying an Israeli license plate, stopped in front of the store for approximately seven minutes, before a number of undercover soldiers jumped out, kidnapped Bader, and drove away.

The soldiers also confiscated Bader’s mobile phone and laptop.

The soldiers violently attacked him, and repeatedly beat him before forcing him into their car and driving away.

He previously spent 4.5 years in Israeli prisons, and is a known member of the Islamic Jihad. He currently studies English at the Birzeit University near Ramallah.

Local sources said that Bader is a close friend of Mohammad ‘Aasy, 24, a member of the Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad who was killed, on Tuesday at dawn, October 22, during armed clashes with Israeli soldiers in Kufur Ni’ma village, west of Ramallah.

Soldiers surrounded a cave where ‘Aasy was kidding, and he exchanged fire with them until they shot him dead.
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