Ramallah: Israeli military forces raided the house of activist Mona Qedan on Tuesday morning, arresting the former prisoner who had been released from Israeli custody in the Shalit Prisoner swap deal.
Mona’s family members said that Mona would have reported to the Israelis had they officially summoned her without the need for a wide operation which disturbed the entire town.
The 41 year old Qedan, from the town of Arabah in Jenin, is indicted by Israeli intelligence as an activist woman of the Islamic Jihad. It is the fifth time she has been arrested.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said that Israeli forces raided the house in large numbers early morning, searched the house and later arrested Mona, but did not arrest Mona’s other three released brothers Tareq, Mahmoud, and Muawiah.
A senior official at the club said that Mona has been accused by the Israeli military of conducting activities which “harm Israeli security”.
Mona Qedan has spent five years in an Israeli prison. Her last incarceration ended during the second round of the Shalit prisoner exchange deal on December 18. Before her release, she went on hunger strike in protest against being kept in solitary confinement. Her mother died while she was on hunger strike.
Family sources claim that Mona has not left the house since her release from prison.
Mona has been engaged to the Palestinian activist Ebrahim Hassan Eghbariyah, from the 1948 areas, inside the green line. In 1992, Eghbariyah was sentenced to life imprisonment by an Israeli court on charges of killing Israeli soldiers in a military operation.
Mona waited for her fiancé, intending to marry him after he is released from prison.
