Mervat Sadeq-Ramallah
Students from the Palestinian University of Birzeit on Monday and early Tuesday received telephone calls from the intelligence authorities of the occupation authorities who were called to investigate Ofer military prison west of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
Sources in the student council of the university received investigation calls for dozens of students, some of them affiliated with the Islamic Bloc and the student pole, the student arms of Hamas and the Popular Front.
The university's media department told Al-Jazeera Net that a number of students informed them this morning of receiving Israeli summons for investigation. At a time when the administration of the University estimated the number of students arrested about ninety students, including at least twenty arrested in the past two months.
Al-Jazeera Net listened to a telephone recording from an Israeli intelligence officer to a student of the Faculty of Commerce summoning him for investigation, but the latter told him not intend to attend because he is busy studying and working.
The Israeli officer threatened the student to break into his home and arrest him and not allow him to complete his class if he did not attend the investigation. He informed him that thirty students from the university had been summoned for investigation today. The student council said a large number of these students refused to respond to the summons.
The Israeli occupation forces launched a campaign of arrests and summons almost daily against Birzeit University students, especially the last three months, after two students were accused of membership in a PFLP cell that carried out an explosive device attack in Ein Bobin area west of Ramallah at the end of August, which resulted in the death of a settlement and the injury of two relatives.
The Israeli occupation forces arrested last night 12 Palestinians from the West Bank, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Club, including four boys from Aida refugee camp near Bethlehem.
In the occupied holy city, Israeli occupation forces arrested Yasser Darwish, secretary general of Fatah movement in Issawiya, in addition to the arrest of three boys from the same town on Monday evening.