Tuesday 7 July 2009

PA militia transfers detainee to hospital due to torture


PA militia transfers detainee to hospital due to torture

[ 07/07/2009 - 04:46 PM ]

NABLUS, (PIC)-- Informed sources said that 45-year-old detainee Samih Aleiwi, kidnapped seven months ago, was transferred to the intensive care unit at the national hospital in Nablus on Monday as a result of his exposure to excruciating torture at the hands of PA security officers in Juneid prison.

Aleiwi family members said that elements of PA security militia prevented his family from seeing him despite being in the intensive care unit, and physically assaulted his son Mutasem, adding that they forced the family out of the hospital and iterated blasphemous remarks against God.

The sources noted that this was the seventh time Aleiwi was transferred to hospital because of torture, affirming that he is in very poor health condition.

The sources also said that the PA militia also closed Aleiwi’s jewelry store and confiscated its contents.

In the context of the PA-Israeli security collaboration, PA militia kidnapped pharmacist Omar Al-Hanbali immediately after his release from Israeli jails on Monday.

Sources reported that the PA militia rounded him up in an Israeli-controlled area near the village of Laban, east of Nablus, on his way back home after he was released from Negev prison.

The same militia had taken the wife of Hanbali hostage on Sunday in order to pressure him to turn himself in immediately after his release from Israeli jails.

The PA security apparatuses also reportedly kidnapped a young man called Mohamed Halayka from the town of Shuyukh in Al-Khalil after they summoned him for interrogation.

His family said that Halayka was working in the 1948 occupied lands and returned to his village to get married.

The PA militia always targets Halayka clan, the biggest family in the town of Shuyukh, where the security apparatuses carry out daily arrests in the ranks of the family at the pretext of their affiliation with Hamas.

In a context related to the issue of political arrests in the West Bank, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri categorically denied that the PA in Ramallah had released 185 detainees affiliated with Hamas during the past few days, affirming that the PA statements in this regard were only made for propaganda purposes and to mislead the public opinion.

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