Israeli forces have arrested the speaker of the Palestinian parliament at his house early Sunday.
Officials said about 20 Israeli army vehicles surrounded the house of Abdel Aziz Duaik and took him into custody.
The Israeli military said that Duaik, as a Hamas leader, was a target for arrest.
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas called the arrest "another crime of piracy by the Israeli occupation against the elected representatives of our people," and demanded international action to secure the release of Duaik and other Hamas officials.
On June 29, Israeli forces arrested dozens of Hamas officials, including eight cabinet ministers. One was released earlier this week.
Earlier in the weekend, Israel continued its incursion into the region, launching deadly air strikes and rolling its tanks into the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday.
A mother and her two children were killed in the first Israeli air strike, officials said. Four other people were seriously wounded in the attack.
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