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AL-KHALIL (PIC) 16 June -- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested Hamas MP Dr. Samir Al-Qadi from his home in Sourif village north of Al-Khalil at dawn Thursday. Sources close to Dr. Qadi, 55, said that IOF troops encircled the lawmaker’s home then ordered him out before arresting him. The Israeli occupation authority is currently detaining 17 Palestinian lawmakers, nine of them from Al-Khalil with all of them held under administrative detention for six months. The IOA returned to the policy of kidnapping MPs seven months ago with some of them held on three occasions during the past few years.

The IOA has separately forced the isolation of all Jerusalemite deputies who were threatened with deportation from their city and sought refuge in the Red Cross premises where they have been there for the past year with the exception of one, Mohammed Abu Tir, who was captured and deported to the West Bank after revoking his Jerusalemite residence.