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By Name- A Campaign of Arrests in Issawiya
December 29, 2019

Today, Sunday at dawn, the occupation forces launched an arrest of young men from the town of Issawiya in Jerusalem.

A member of the Issawiya Follow-up Committee stated that teams of the Israeli occupation forces and intelligence stormed the town at dawn until the early morning hours. Several houses were raided, a number of young men were arrested and investigation summonses were handed out to others.

Local sources in Issawiya reported that the following were arrested:

  1. Sami Anwar Obaid
  2. Murad Anwar Obaid
  3. Samer Anwar Obaid
  4. Fadi Ali Alian
  5. Nasser Ali Mahmoud
  6. Zakaria Alian
  7. Kayed Mahmoud
  8. Marwan Dari
  9. Ismail Muheisin
  10. Akram Mustafa
  11. Youssef Mohammad Darwish
  12. Mohammad Al Safadi
  13. Jamal Attia

Lawyer Mohammad Mahmoud stated that the Israeli authorities decided to release the arrested young men

Lawyer Mohammad Mahmoud confirms that this comes within the threat of the townspeople, because “withdrawing identities” takes long and complicated procedures, and it is not easy to implement this threat.