The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has detained one of the arrests senior Hamas figure Hassan Yousef early on Tuesday during a raid on his West Bank home.
Security forces arrested him in the Palestinian town of Beitunia, southwest of Ramallah.
The 60-year-old Yousef is involved in intensive activities aimed at inciting Palestinians to commit acts of terrorism, according to the army.
The sheikh has been arrested and jailed in Israel on several past occasions. Israeli authorities accuse him of “[fermenting] violence and conflict against Israel among the Palestinian public.”
Soldiers from the Artillery Corps Ra’am (Thunder) battalion and units from the Binyamin territorial brigade arrested Yousef together with the Shin Bet, and took him in for questioning.
