[ 08/03/2010 - 06:31 PM ]
GAZA, (PIC)-- The higher national committee in support of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails held a press conference on Monday demanding international pressure for releasing those prisoners.
Mohammed Katari, the ministry of prisoners' undersecretary, said in a statement on behalf of the committee that the sit-in, which is organized weekly at the Red Cross headquarters, was meant to express solidarity with Palestinian prisoners.
He mentioned in particular MP Ahmed Saadat, the secretary general of the popular front for the liberation of Palestine who has been moved to solitary confinement by the so-called Israeli prisons authority.
Katari asked world parliaments to back the detained Palestinian MPs, underscoring that their detention was in violation of all doctrines and norms.
The undersecretary appealed to the Palestinian factions holding Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit to stick to their demands and insist on the release of the biggest possible number of Palestinian prisoners in return for Shalit's freedom.
For his part, Jamil Mizher, a politburo member of the PFLP, said that all factions should prioritize the question of prisoners and exert all possible efforts for their release.
He underlined that national unity is the sole means of restoring national rights and solving the question of those prisoners.
Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation forces continued to round up more Palestinians and detained six of them at dawn Monday in central and southern West bank areas.
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