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Wednesday, July 27, 2016
PA intelligence officers arrest 'dangerous fugitive' in Hebron

PA intelligence officers arrest 'dangerous fugitive' in Hebron
July 26, 2016 3:02 P.M. (Updated: July 26, 2016 4:17 P.M.)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772387

HEBRON (Ma’an) -- Palestinian intelligence officers arrested on Tuesday
morning a “dangerous fugitive” in the Old City of Hebron in the southern
occupied West Bank, an area under Israeli control.

A Palestinian security official in Hebron told Ma’an that officers of the
Palestinian Authority’s General Intelligence succeeded “through a
complicated operation” to arrest a criminal in the alleys of the Old City.
He was taken for questioning.

The source said the fugitive was accused of shooting attacks against
Palestinian governmental and civilian vehicles, assaulting government
employees, and robbing government institutions and houses in the Old City.

“This criminal has been a threat to public security and civil peace in the
Old City and has been hampering work in public institutions and threatening
employees,” the security official added.

General Intelligence officers arrested two other “fugitives” in the Old City
overnight Monday, the source added, urging all fugitives to turn themselves
in.

The arrests come amid a crackdown by PA security forces on criminal activity
in the West Bank, with Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah announcing
earlier this month plans to amend the penal code and "arrest all fugitives
and put them to justice.”

On Sunday, unknown assailants opened fire on the house of Mohammad Dweikat,
who is running for mayor of the northern occupied West Bank city of Nablus.

Dweikat told Ma’an at the time he suspected that the shooting was carried
out as a challenge to the Palestinian president, prime minister, and to
their ongoing efforts to contain the security situation in the occupied West
Bank.

Nablus was also the site of a deadly shooting at the end of June, which
resulted in two Palestinian security officers being killed and at least 13
civilians reportedly wounded after a gunman opened fire on a police officer’s
home.

Last month, unidentified gunmen also stopped Palestinian Authority Minister
of Social Development Ibrahim al-Shaer at gunpoint near Qalandiya refugee
camp north of Jerusalem and hijacked his car.

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