Ramallah, West Bank – Israeli forces arreted Palestinian parliamentary Speaker Aziz Dweik, a Hamas leader, during a raid in the West Bank town of Ramallah.
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what a waste of time. they should have done away with him when they had the chance.
RAMALLAH, West Bank – Israeli security forces detained Palestinian parliamentary speaker Aziz Dweik, a leader of the governing Hamas movement, in a raid on his West Bank home on Sunday, while an airstrike killed a Palestinian in the southern Gaza Strip, as Israel pressed its offensive against militants.
“We were sitting home peacefully, normally. Then we heard knocking on the door, which surprised and shocked us because the knocking was so loud,” Dweik’s wife told Reuters in the West Bank city of Ramallah after the night-time arrest.
“He went down because the army was there. He opened the door. They saw him in his pajamas and asked him to go with them. He asked for his clothes, and I brought them.”
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An Israeli army spokesman confirmed Dweik was taken into custody. “He is the head of Hamas’s legislature and since Hamas is a terrorist organization, he is a target for arrest,” he said.