[ 25/08/2010 - 12:22 PM ] "This frenzied campaign against our people in the West Bank is an instant requisite ahead of the useless negotiations in Washington, and a bad fruit of the policy and approach of the security coordination with the occupation under the command of US general Keith Dayton, that is intended for protecting the occupation's security and the settlers' well-being," Hamas said in a press release on Tuesday.
Hamas also called on de facto president Mahmoud Abbas and his government to desist from this unpatriotic approach and release all detainees immediately, and held them fully responsible for the detainees' safety.
For his part, Dr. Ahmed Bahar, the first deputy speaker of the Palestinian legislative council, slammed the raids carried out by these security militias on homes and offices of a number of Hamas lawmakers in the West Bank.
Dr. Bahar also appealed in a statement to the Arab League, the organization of the Islamic conference, all parliaments around the world and human rights organizations to stand by the Jerusalemite officials threatened with expulsion from the holy city and pressure Israel to repeal its unjust decision against them.
The lawmaker condemned, in another context, the Palestine liberation organization for accepting the direct talks with Israelis, stressing that the PLO does not represent the Palestinian people.
In a separate incident, Abbas's security militias kidnapped on Tuesday Sheikh Yasser Hamad, a senior Hamas official and a member of the municipal council in Qalqiliya city. Hamad is one of more than 60 Palestinians affiliated with Hamas kidnapped lately in the West Bank.
The militias also rounded up a young man called Munder Al-Sha'er from Habla village, south of Qalqiliya, during his visit to the relatives of his wife in Immatin village on Monday.
Sources close to Sha'er said that the detainee suffers from several diseases and spent many years in West Bank and Israeli jails.
Another Palestinian prisoner in Jericho prison was reportedly forced by the militias to shave his beard. Local sources added that the militias transferred him to criminals' cell in an attempt to damage him psychologically.
10 other Palestinian citizens from Hamas were also kidnapped in the cities of Ramallah, Nablus, Al-Khalil, Qalqiliya, and Bethlehem, according to local sources on Wednesday.
The security militias in Nablus city also kidnapped Ahmed Al-Mash'ati, the commander-general of Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the armed wing of the popular front for the liberation of Palestine (PFLP) during his presence in a grocery store at noon Tuesday.
Deputy secretary-general of the PFLP Abdelrahim Malluh denounced in a press statement to the Palestinian information center (PIC) the kidnapping of Mash'ati, saying these security militias turned themselves into a tool to protect the Israeli occupation.
Malluh added that it is reprehensible for any security institution to arrest the Palestinian national figures and resistance fighters in order to guard the Israeli occupation's security.
In a related context, Palestinian lawmaker Imad Nofal, for his part, strongly denounced the West Bank security militia for summoning Asma Hamouda, the wife of prisoner Ra'ed Hutri and a member of Qalqiliya municipal council, for interrogation.
Nofal stressed that this action is contrary to the Palestinian people's norms and traditions, adding that women should be spared any political differences.
PA's security kidnaps 37 citizens from Hamas, targets lawmakers during raids
[ 24/08/2010 - 12:48 PM ] WEST BANK, (PIC)-- The Palestinian Authority's security militias kidnapped 37 citizens affiliated with Hamas including senior officials, and relatives and assistants of lawmakers during wanton raids on homes in the cities of Jenin, Nablus, Ramallah, Qalqiliya, Al-Khalil, Jenin, and Tubas, according to local sources on Tuesday.
Among the detainees kidnapped in Al-Khalil were the office director of MP Na'yef Al-Rajoub, the driver of MP Samir Halaiqa, the brother of MP Hatem Kufaisha, some citizens related to MP Mohamed Al-Tal including two of his sons and the director of his office, and one of MP Azzam Salhab's in-laws.
In Nablus, the militias kidnapped all members of the holy Qur'an committee and all of them are noted religious figures in the city including Sheikh Mustafa Al-Kuni, the imam of Ali Mosque and Sheikh Sebti Dweikat, the imam of Al-Shafei Mosque.
In another context related to Abbas's authority, informed sources revealed to the PIC that former commander-general of Palestinian police Ghazi Al-Jibali, who escaped from Gaza years ago and was wanted by Fatah's authority on corruption charges, reached a settlement in 2008 with Yasser, the son of de facto president Mahmoud Abbas, that cleared all his criminal records.
Under this agreement between Abbas's son and Jibali, the latter obtained a diplomatic passport and the post of Abbas's advisor, and all charges against him were dropped, while the former in return received $3,000,000 from Jibali.
The PIC managed to obtain a copy of Jibali's diplomatic passport which clearly states that he is a presidential advisor.
The PIC also had a copy of a document written and signed by Abbas on November 20, 2008 in which he exempted Jibali from bringing back stolen money to the PA and from any other claims.
Another document also revealed that Abbas's ambassador to Jordan Atallah Khairy sent a letter to the Jordanian authorities to inform them to stop dealing with demands for arresting Jibali.
Similar letters were sent at the time through the secretariat-general of the Arab League to the Arab interior ministers and to the police authorities in the Arab countries.
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