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17 January 2012
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At approximately 10:00 pm on Tuesday 17 January 2012, Israeli Special Forces arrested two young men, identified by Al Mezan as:
· Akram Hussein As-Soufi, 24, from Ash-Shawka village; and
· Isma’il Mahmoud As-Soufi, 22, from the Bedouin village in the north of the Gaza Strip.
They were arrested in the area east of the non-operational Gaza International Airport, east of Rafah.
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) took them to an unknown location.
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