Israeli intelligence arrests Jordanian engineer — Fedaa

AMMAN — The Israeli intelligence arrested Malek Khabbas, a Jordanian engineer, on April 30 while he was returning from a visit to relatives in Palestine, according to a statement issued on Tuesday by Fedaa, the media team supporting Jordanian prisoners in Israel. 

Khabbas' mother told Fedaa that she was coming back to Jordan with her son after attending a relative's wedding, when Israeli forces at the King Hussein Bridge summoned him for questioning.

The mother noted that she waited for around three hours before she was told that Malek had been apprehended, without the Israelis giving any reasons, according to the statement.

Malek graduated from the Jordan University of Science and Technology's civil engineering department last year, the statement quoted her as saying.

Malek's brother told Fedaa that the family has had no news about him since the day he was detained, adding that the family is worried about his health condition.

Malek is a Jordanian citizen and has a national number, the brother pointed out, calling on the government and the Jordanian embassy in Tel Aviv to follow up on his brother's case and work for his release.

The brother stressed that Malek did not commit any crime that is worth being detained for.

Fedaa noted that the total number of Jordanian prisoners in Israeli jails, following the detention of Malek and businessman Ibrahim Siyam two weeks ago, now stands at 26.