Monday 8 November 2010

PA preventive security transfers prisoner to hospital after health problems

[ 08/11/2010 - 06:19 PM ]

Al-KHALIL, (PIC)-- Informed Palestinian sources said that the Palestinian authority's preventive security transferred prisoner Amjad Kazzaz to the government hospital in Al-Khalil city after his health deteriorated badly.

The sources added that the preventive security allowed some of his relatives to visit him in hospital on Saturday, where they knew that their Kazzaz was suffering from severe pains for several days and underwent surgery to remove his appendix.

The preventive security had kidnapped Kazzaz on August 24 two weeks after he was released from Israeli jails.

His family appealed to human rights organizations to intervene to have their son released from PA jails.

For their part, ex-detainees released from PA jails in the West Bank revealed that the interrogators of the preventive security and intelligence apparatuses follow the same carrot and stick approach used by the Israeli interrogators in order to convince them to work as informers.

They said that the PA interrogators use threats and temptations to induce detainees in their jails to cooperate with them and provide them on a permanent basis with information on resistance fighters and Hamas cadres.

They added that the PA interrogators threaten prisoners to extend their imprisonment time and fabricate new charges against them if they do not work as informers or offer them freedom, a cushy job, a cell phone with a lifetime balance and other things.

In separate incidents, the PA security apparatuses in Bethlehem city released Sunday evening reporter for Al-Quds satellite channel Mamdouh Hamamrah after he spent 55 days in their jails on allegations of insulting de facto president Mahmoud Abbas.

The PA security militias in Ramallah city kidnapped on Sunday senior Islamic Jihad official Abdelhakim Masalma and summoned his wife for interrogation.

The Islamic Jihad Movement, for its part, denounced the PA security militias for kidnapping Masalma after a raid on his home in Ramallah and summoning his wife and demanded his immediate release.

Islamic Jihad in another context said that the PA security militias still refuse to release its student bloc coordinator in the Arab American university in Jenin city Mohamed Abu Zeina.

Its student bloc accused the preventive security of waging a security campaign against its cadres in all West Bank universities especially in the American university.

In Nablus city, the PA militias kidnapped two Palestinian citizens affiliated with Hamas Movement and issued imprisonment sentences against two others in Jenin, according to local sources on Monday.

In another context, Haaretz newspaper said that the security cooperation between the PA security forces and the Israeli army made the list of Palestinians wanted by Israel in north of the West Bank "zero."

"There is not a single security suspect being sought by Israel in the northern West Bank for the first time since the outbreak of the second intifada in 2000. In the southern West Bank, there are only a few names on the security establishment's wanted list," the newspaper said.

"The situation is a reflection of both the improved security situation in the West Bank and the increasing cooperation between Israeli and Palestinian Authority security forces," it added.

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