Fatah official summoned for questioning by Israeli intelligence agency

A senior official in the Fatah movement has been summoned to appear before the Israeli occupation intelligence services. The Secretary of the Central Committee of Fatah, Jibril Rajoub, received the summons on Tuesday, telling him that he should be present at the liaison office at the Ofer camp, west of the city of Ramallah, on Thursday.

Al-Quds Al-Arabi learned that the occupation authorities stopped Rajoub for about two hours at the Karameh border crossing with Jordan, and confiscated his passport on his way back from France where he attended the Olympic Games closing ceremony on Sunday, in his capacity as head of the Palestinian Olympic Committee. The Palestinian news and information agency, Wafa, quoted Rajoub as saying that the occupation forces thoroughly searched him, before handing him the summons.

“All Palestinians are being targeted by the Israeli occupation,” said Rajoub. “This is something expected from an occupying power that wipes out our people and seeks to displace them, without differentiating between a woman, a child, or an elderly person.”

He pointed out that all Palestinians, regardless of status, are targeted and persecuted. “No one has immunity.” Nevertheless, the official stressed that, “This is an occupation authority, and I will not comply with its summons.”

Rajoub also noted that he and the Palestinian sports family, supported by its brothers and friends around the world, will continue their efforts to have the Israeli occupation state banned from all international sports events, as it does not respect international law or the regulations of sports federations.

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