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Wednesday, March 7, 2018
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Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Ramallah university says undercover Israeli forces arrest student leader
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA Palestinian university says undercover Israeli security forces stormed the Birzeit University campus earlier this afternoon and arrested student council president Omar al-Kiswani.
In a statement, Birzeit says the Israelis were disguised as Palestinian students, and carried firearms in their backpacks, while an armed IDF united secured the area surrounding the campus.
A video of the arrest shows several men pinning al-Kiswani down and handcuffing him.
Al-Kiswani has been previously identified as a Hamas student activist in various news reports.
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