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MOSCOW (SPUTNIK) – Israeli security forces have arrested Jerusalem's governor, the Palestinian Authority Adnan Ghaith, and the Palestinian Authority's general intelligence director, Jihad Faqih, media reports said. local.
The Jerusalem Post newspaper reported Sunday that Ghaith was arrested in the Beit Hanina district of Jerusalem while Faqih was in a village south of the city of Ramallah.
Ghaith's lawyer told the newspaper that the governor had been accused of "threats" without going into details.
The Palestinian Authority has described the arrests of Ghaith and Faqih as "a new Israeli crime against the Palestinian people".
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For decades, Israel has been in conflict with the Palestinians, seeking diplomatic recognition of their independent state in the West Bank territories, including East Jerusalem, partially occupied by Israel and the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli government refuses to recognize Palestine as an independent political and diplomatic entity and continues to build settlements in the occupied areas, despite objections from the UN.
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