An interesting event tonight in Deir al-Balah in the center of the Gaza Strip (an area where the IDF forces have not yet maneuvered – AA).
Palestinian channels report that Israeli special forces moving north from the Khan Yunis area and the flour mills junction, entered the Al-Etzar family compound in the Al-Barkha area in southern Deir al-Balakh – ordered the residents of the compound to stay in their homes and “kidnapped” Asma’ Al-Etsar, the wife of Arafat Sha’at.
Well-informed sources in the Gaza Strip update that Arafat was arrested by Israel last October (which means that he was apparently arrested in the surrounding area because in October the IDF still did not enter the Gaza Strip).
These sources estimate that his wife may have been taken to put pressure on him in the investigation.
Gazans were surprised by the precise information that the forces had that allowed them such a surgical operation and noted that apparently “there are many accomplices in the area”.