RAMALLAH, April 5: Israeli forces stormed the house of Palestinian information minister Yasser Abed Rabbo on Friday and left after searching it for a half an hour.

“I am not under arrest,” Abed Rabbo said, denying rumours he had been apprehended by the troops who invaded his house in El-Bireh, near Ramallah.

“They searched my house and then left,” he said, adding the soldiers had given him no explanation for their act.

An army spokesman said Abed Rabbo’s house had been stormed by “mistake”, adding the soldiers were searching all the houses on that street and did not know they had entered the minister’s house.—AFP

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