GAZA, (PIC)-- The Palestinian center for human rights has condemned the arbitrary detention and the political arrest campaign at the hands of PA security forces in the West Bank against Hamas supporters, urging the immediate release of six professors kidnapped a couple of days ago.
The center called on the ill-famed preventive security apparatus, in a statement on Wednesday, to halt political arrest campaign against Hamas members in the West Bank, and to respect orders of the Palestinian supreme court in this regard.
According to the center, the apparatus kidnapped six professors lecturing at Al-Najah University in Nablus city, north of the West Bank, one municipal council, two engineers, a university student, and nine women over the past few days for being sympathizers of Hamas Movement.
“The warrant of arrest is clearly regulated in the Palestinian law as it is the sole authority of the prosecution and the civil police, and not any other apparatus in the PA security departments”, the center emphasized.
It also stressed that the Palestinian law prohibits the arrest of any Palestinian citizen for political reasons regardless of his political affiliation, underscoring that the six kidnapped professors are known for their good conduct.
Moreover, the center confirmed that the PA security forces controlled by Fatah in the West Bank maintain a hostile stand against human right groups and refuses to allow them visit the detainees in the PA jails.
The Abbas militias, however, continued their arrest campaign against Hamas supporters in different parts of the West Bank, including Nablus, Qalqilia, Tulkarem, Tobas, and Salfit.
Local reports in Nablus city confirmed that seven Hamas supporters, including five former detainees in Israeli jails were rounded up at the hands of Abbas militias who subjected them to torture sessions.
Another five Palestinian citizens, including businessmen, were also arrested at the hands of Abbas forces in the city of Tulkarem on allegation they were Hamas sympathizers.
Leaving no place for chivalry in their hearts, the Abbas militia also arrested Palestinian woman Kholdoon Owad and put her under severe interrogation rounds before releasing her hours after her arrest.
In Salfit city, the Abbas militia rounded up activist Fuad Al-Khafsh, the specialist in the captives’ affairs.
In reaction to those unwarranted arrests against his group’s supporters in the West Bank, Ezzat Al-Resheq, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, said that those arrests serve only the Israeli occupation and harm the Palestinian national interests.
In an interview with the Quds Press, Resheq pointed out that the arrest campaigns against Hamas members and charities in the West Bank noticeably increased recently in a bid to push Hamas to the corner.
However, he urged Abbas’s authority in Ramallah to confront the Israeli settlement activities and the continued practices to judaize Jerusalem city instead of wasting their time in chasing and arresting the honorable people in Palestine, stressing that such practices won’t twist Hamas’s hand.
In the same context, Palestinian legal institutions deprecated the PA security closure of a local TV station in Nablus city, saying that a televised report, which was recording their closure of the station, was confiscated by those militias before they sealed the station.
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