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Police Arrests Four Leaders of People's Party and Suppresses Protesters in Beit Lahia

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23 March 2008

On 23 March 2008, at app.
9 am, members of the Deposed Government's police arrested 48-year-old Mahmoud Zaki Ar Radi' , the head of the Palestinian People's Party office and member of the National Work Commission (NWC) in Beit Lahia, on the background of issuing a statement by the NWC condemning the forcible take over of Beit Lahia Club by Hamas.
Tens of the party's members and other factions of Palestinian Liberation Organization protested the arrest of Ar Radi' in Beit Lahia Square.
The police headed to the square at app.
12.
20, and dispersed the protesters by force, injuring four of them.
They also arrested three leaders of the Party who were identified as: Rafiq Al Masri, 45, Ziad Abu Shadaq, 40, and Jamil Abu Hmeida, 50.
The four were released on the same day as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the National Work Commission intervened.