Radwan: Fatah authority linked its fate with Israel

[ 08/08/2010 - 11:08 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- Hamas leader Dr. Ismail Radwan said Saturday evening that the Fatah-controlled authority in Ramallah's fierce campaign of arrests against Hamas leaders and supporters in the West Bank “shows the double role it plays with Israel aimed at destroying the Palestinian resistance”.

“Hamas condemns this frenetic campaign,” Radwan said in a news briefing, adding: “The pursuit of Hamas leaders is the culmination of moral and national decay the Fatah authority has reached, as it provides a free service to Israel.”

“The arrest and abduction of Hamas leaders and supporters in the West Bank to coincide with the holy month of Ramadan asserts that the Fatah authority has linked its fate with the enemy, and flouts all efforts exerted to achieve inter-Palestinian reconciliation,” the Hamas leader noted.

“Fatah arrests resistance fighters as a price for starting negotiations with occupation giving its external agenda precedence over the internal Palestinian agenda and achieving reconciliation,” he added.

Abbas’s militia has kidnapped more than 15 Hamas leaders and supporters in Ramallah, Salfit, and Nablus, including last week’s arrest of Najah national university professors Dr. Khader Sawandak and Dr. Farid Abdul-Latif Abu Dhuheir.

West Bank families appeal for releasing their sons from Abbas's jails

[ 08/08/2010 - 11:23 AM ]

NABLUS, (PIC)-- The Palestinian families of political prisoners in the West Bank appealed to the Palestinian authority (PA) to release their sons from its jails on the occasion of the holy month of Ramadan.

They noted in a statement on Sunday that the month of Ramadan has all meanings of goodness, brotherhood and tolerance between brothers, and the release of their sons would contributes to the building of the Palestinian state.

They also called on all Palestinian leaders to take positive steps and grant an amnesty for all prisoners, in order to bring a smile to the lips of their families and spread an atmosphere of friendship and love in the Palestinian arena.

In a separate incident, Mahmoud Abbas's security militias kidnapped six Palestinian citizens affiliated with Hamas Movement in the cities of Nablus and Ramallah, according to local sources on Sunday.

The militias also summoned ex-detainee in Israeli jails Sheikh Saleh Qasem, 53, a few days after they stormed and ransacked his home in Bethlehem city.

Sheikh Qasem worked as a manger of orphans' affairs in Al-Islah charity and suffers from cancer and different health problems caused by chemotherapy and surgeries



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