Zionist troops have seized a minister from the Palestinian unity government in the occupied West Bank. Wasfi Kabha's daughter said five soldiers came to their house before dawn, took her father, his computer and other documents.
The occupant army confirmed it had arrested a Hamas member overnight but did not identify him. The Palestinian minister of state's detention came after 33 Hamas political leaders were arrested on Thursday. Meanwhile, in the Gaza Strip, Israel also continued to pound Hamas targets early on Saturday.
Kabha is the second Hamas minister in the unity cabinet to be arrested by zionist occupation forces. Nasser Shaer, the education minister, was among those seized earlier in the week. Israel has been holding 40 Palestinian politicians from Hamas rounded up over the past year. Five air strikes on Saturday hit targets around the home of Ismail Haniya, the Palestinian prime minister. At least three people, all bystanders, were wounded, doctors said. It was the second consecutive day that locations around Haniya's home had been struck by the occupying zionist invaders' military. "The mutual truce would be observed at first for one month in the Gaza Strip, then afterwards in the West Bank," Ayman Taha, a Hamas spokesman, said after a meeting held among their members. The armed groups denied that any commitments had been made, saying only that they were weighing the trial Gaza truce proposal. "The next 48 hours will be decisive for determining which way the factions are going, and it will depend on Israel and whether it wants to stop its aggression," Abdel-Hakim Awad, a spokesman for Abbas's Fatah faction, said.
Source: Agencies Kavkaz Center
Publication time: 26 May 2007, 12:20
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