Israeli Police arrest hamas lawmaker in East Jerusalem

The Israeli occupation force on Monday detained Ahmad Attoun, a Hamas lawmaker and member of palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) outside the Red Cross office in East Jerusalem, where he had taken refugee more than a year ago to avoid arrest. Attoun came out of the building to see what was happening, and was quickly grabbed and spirited away. The other two, lawmaker Muhammad Totah and former minister of Jerusalem affairs, Khaled Abu Arafeh, remained inside but were also arrested. A third Jerusalem Hamas lawmaker, Muhammad Abu Tir, was previously apprehended and expelled to the West Bank, but was last month arrested again while at home in the Ramallah area. Official figures in al quds have revealed earlier last month that the israeli occupation authorities have intended to expel 384 political personalities and activists from al quds to the west bak during this month of September. Another Hamas lawmaker and a top party official were also arrested. Israel had threatened to send the three Hamas leaders to the West Bank following an interior ministry decision to revoke their Jerusalem residency after they ran for seats in the Palestinian Legislative Council, in 2006. Undercover Israeli agents, one of them dressed as a veiled Muslim woman, provoked a scene outside the Red Cross office in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.