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Early Saturday, police said they had arrested two men, including Zakaria Zubeidi, in the Arab city of Umm al-Ghanam. Zubeidi was a militant leader during the second Palestinian uprising in the early 2000s.
Although she has been linked with attacks on Israelis, she is also well known for giving frequent media interviews and the friendship she once had with an Israeli woman. Zubeidi had for years received amnesty and took college courses and was active in the West Bank theater movement before he was re-arrested in 2019 on suspicion of involvement in attacks.
Photographs released by police showed Zubeidi, handcuffed and wearing a white blindfold, being led away by two police officers.
In a statement, police said that Israeli security forces, including the military, had been working “round the clock” to arrest the fugitives.
“All troops are deployed in full force, searching in open areas, gathering every piece of information until they solve the riddle to find these two fugitives, including Zubeidi,” the police said. France24, Saturday (11/9/2021).
Earlier, two other detainees were arrested in Nazareth, an Arab city in northern Israel west of Umm al-Ghanam.
A video circulating on social media shows Israeli police chaining one of the detainees, Yakub Kadari, to the back seat of a police vehicle and asking his name. The man wearing jeans and a green T-shirt calmly identified himself as Kadari and answered “yes” when asked if he was one of the runaways. Kadari is serving two life sentences for attempted murder and planting a bomb.
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