Israel arrests Hamas cabinet minister
06/04/2006 - 07:31:00Israeli police today arrested a minister in the Palestinians' new Hamas government, Hamas officials said.
Khaled Abu Arafa, minister of Jerusalem affairs, was arrested with his bodyguard when he was on his way to Izzariya, a suburb near Jerusalem, where he was planning to open an office, the Hamas officials said.
Abu Arafa, a Jerusalem resident born in 1961, has been detained by Israel several times in the past.
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