NABLUS,
West Bank, August 15 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Defying a
widely condemned policy of “collective punishment”, the Israeli
occupation army arrested for the second time Thursday, August 15, a
Palestinian activist’s wife, who had taken refuge at a friend’s
house in Nablus after her house in Jenin was destroyed.
Hiba
Attari, the wife of Ibrahim Attari, was arrested by Israeli soldiers at
a friend’s house where she was staying in Nablus, in the northern West
Bank, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
She
left her three children, one of whom is three months old, with a
neighbor, they told AFP.
Two
weeks ago, the Israeli army destroyed Attari's home in the northern West
Bank town of Jenin and Hiba Attari was placed under arrest, but released
after a day.
Since
then, the Attaris have been living in Nablus with a friend, local
residents said.
Ibrahim
Attari belongs to the Jenin branch of the Al-Aqsa Brigades, an armed
offshoot of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's resistance Fatah
movement. He figures on Israel's list of wanted Palestinian activists.
His whereabouts are not known.
The
occupation army was not immediately available to comment on the second
arrest.
The
Israeli government’s new policy of punishing relatives of Palestinian
resistance fighters has drawn wide criticism from different parties
outside and inside Israel.
Condemning
the Israeli “crimes against humanity” in Nablus, Palestinian
President Yasser Arafat has repeated his call on the international
community to provide protection for the Palestinians against “the
continuous Israeli terror and collective punishment against our
people”.
