HEBRON – Israeli forces detained Sunday evening 83-year-old politician and author Mohammad Said Midieh while he was walking with advocates from the Defense of Land Committee near the illegal Jewish settlement of Karmei Tzur north of Hebron.
Midieh’s son, Ghassan, told WAFA that settlers from Karmei Tzur got into a brawl with his father and then assaulted him. He was then detained and taken to an interrogation center in the settlement of Kiryat Arba east of Hebron.
Midieh is from the town of Halhoul, north of the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
In addition to being active in the Defense of Land Committee, he is also a veteran leader in the Palestinian People’s Party. He was arrested twice by Israel and exiled to Jordan in 1970 before his return to the West Bank in 1994.
He is the author of several books and publications on Palestinian culture.
(WAFA)
