GAZA, (PIC)-- The Palestinian interior ministry in Gaza has charged that what Fatah's controlled security militias were doing in the West Bank had crossed all red lines.
Ihab Al-Ghussain, the ministry's spokesman, held Fatah faction fully responsible for the crimes being committed in the West Bank during a press conference he held in Gaza on Saturday.
He said that his ministry would not remain silent vis-à-vis the torture in Fatah dungeons that included detaining and torturing women and even raping a detainee.
The national campaign to defend Mirvat Sabri, who is held in Fatah's jails, said that her arrest was political, explaining that the charges against her were null and void.
The campaign, in a statement on Saturday, said that Sabri, 27, is the mother of two children and her husband is also held in Fatah's jails. It explained that Sabri was arrested when Fatah-controlled PA militias in the West Bank were chasing a group of Mujahideen who took refuge in her husband's house in Qalqilia.
It renewed absolute rejection of torturing Sabri and discrediting her honor, calling on all teachers to show solidarity with their colleague.
For his part, the director of the independent authority for human rights in the West Bank Mousa Abu Duhaim said that the torture practices in the West Bank had increased after the month of February.
He said that most of the arrests were on political background, noting that most of the detainees appear in military not civilian courts, which he described as a violation of the basic bylaw.
Describing the arrests as "arbitrary", Abu Duhaim said that they, on certain occasions, are accompanied by violent storming of detainees' homes.
Meanwhile, the Fatah-controlled militias detained two of Hamas supporters on Saturday, a Hamas statement in the West Bank said.
It added that the Fatah militias summoned tens of Hamas cadres and supporters in Bethlehem district including women.
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