Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnapped 69-year-old Palestinian MP Mohammed Abu Tir along with a number of liberated prisoners in a pre-dawn sweep Monday.

Press sources said that the IOF soldiers rounded up Abu Tir after breaking into his home in Um al-Sharayet suburb in Ramallah.

Abu Tir, a Hamas leader and MP for Occupied Jerusalem, was banished from the holy city by the Israeli occupation authorities in October 2010. He serve d 30 years of his life in Israeli occupation jails.

Six other Palestinian citizens, including 3 liberated prisoners, were also abducted at dawn Monday in Ramallah, el-Bireh, Nablus, Qalqiliya, and Bethlehem.

Meanwhile, two babies and an adult suffered from suffocation in Silwan in Occupied Jerusalem after Israeli forces heavily fired teargas at civilian homes at midnight Sunday.

Two young men were kidnapped from Silwan last night, local sources said, noting that they were severely beaten before being taken for interrogation.

 

Source: The Palestinian Information Center