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JENIN, (PIC)-- Security forces from the Palestinian authority (PA) on Monday violently raided the house of senior Hamas official and prisoner in Israeli jails Jamal Abul Heija and kidnapped his 18-year old son Hamza.

Informed sources told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that armed men from the preventive, intelligence and national security agencies broke into and ransacked the home of Abul Heija shortly after his son Hamza received on the morning of the same day a summons from the preventive security agency in Jenin city.

The preventive security agency kidnapped Hamza last month after he responded to a summons for interrogation and was released a week later on bail.

All four sons of Hamas official Abul Heija have been kidnapped many times by the PA security agencies in the context of their cooperation with the Israeli occupation.

Abul Haija has been in Israeli jails for nine years serving nine life sentences on a charge of his responsibility for a resistance operation that killed nine Israelis in August 2002.