Fatah leader among 100 arrested

Published June 1, 2002

NABLUS, May 31: The Israeli army arrested 100 Palestinians, including the local chief of Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement, during its reoccupation of Nablus on Friday, Palestinian security sources said.

Israeli soldiers captured Issam Abubakr at his parents’ home in Nablus, which they raided along with the neighbouring Balata refugee camp, they said.

The sources said Abubakr was detained in a raid that involved infantry units backed by around 50 tanks, armoured vehicles and personnel carriers under cover of helicopter gunships.—AFP

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