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[ 07/04/2010 - 04:41 PM ]
KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC)-- Hamas is to use all means available to liberate Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation jails, Hamas spokesman in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, Hammad Al-Ruqub said on Wednesday.
He said in a statement that the Israeli occupation authority's (IOA) policy in repressing prisoners in violation of legal norms, and torturing and harassing them and their families pose as new evidence on the IOA brutality and its disregard of all humanitarian principles.
The spokesman appealed to the Arab and Islamic countries to act and save the prisoners and not to remain silent toward what is happening against them in IOA jails.
Ruqub also asked the world community to stop talking about noble values while remaining tightlipped regarding the IOA crimes.
For its part, the association of Palestinian religious scholars called on Palestinian factions to continue their efforts to release all prisoners, describing it as a religious duty.
It asked the Palestinian, Arab and Islamic masses in a statement on Wednesday to take part in the prisoners' protest steps against the IOA repression.
The Israeli occupation forces, meanwhile, continued their daily arrest campaigns of Palestinian citizens and detained four of them at dawn Wednesday in the cities of Jericho, Nablus and Ramallah.
PLC calls for internationalizing issue of Palestinian prisoners
[ 07/04/2010 - 02:24 PM ]
GAZA, (PIC)-- The Palestinian legislative council (PLC) on Wednesday called for internationalizing the issue of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails during international meetings and events in conjunction with their hunger strike.
In a press release, the PLC demanded the Arab League and the organization of the Islamic conference to take active steps in this regard and raise the issue of prisoners at UN institutions.
The council appealed to regional and international human rights organizations and those concerned with democracy to be in harmony with the slogans and the principles they claim to be adherent to and to pay attention to the suffering of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
It noted that it started to make special preparations to organize a week of solidarity with the prisoners next week in cooperation with the higher national committee for the defense of prisoners.
For his part, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum stated Wednesday that the Palestinian prisoners’ decision to go on open hunger strike confirms that they are exposed to serious Israeli violations.
In a press statement to the Palestinian information center (PIC), spokesman Barhoum said that Hamas Movement will strongly stand by the prisoners and will communicate with the international community to expose the Israeli violations committed against them.
He added that the reason behind the Israeli escalation against prisoners is the absence of the Arab support for their issue in addition to the absence of international justice, noting that many countries moved to talk about one Israeli soldier in captivity and ignored thousands of Palestinians in Israeli jails.
For its part, the higher national committee for the defense of prisoners and different Palestinian factions organized at noon Wednesday a sit-in in solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners who started their open hunger strike today in protest at the harsh incarceration conditions they are living in.
The national committee also said that the representatives of factions and families of prisoners will participate today in a mass hunger strike in solidarity with the Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli jails.
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