DAMASCUS, (PIC)-- Ezzat Al-Resheq, member of Hamas's political bureau, said on Thursday that members and supporters of Hamas who where kidnapped in the wake of the attack on Israeli settlers last Tuesday were subjected to severe torture sessions in the jails of the PA in the West Bank.
He added that the armed militias of Abbas in the West Bank have kidnapped nearly 600 Hamas supporters and leaders since Tuesday after the Qassam Brigades armed attack on Israeli settlers in Al-Khalil city that left four of them dead.
The QB said that the attack was in retaliation to the IOF troops and armed Israeli settlers' attacks on Palestinian villagers in the West Bank and the confiscation of their lands at gunpoint.
"No wonder that the waves of the frenzied arrest campaigns came in harmony with the launching of the direct negotiations between Abbas's authority in the West Bank and the Israeli occupation in Washington", Resheq pointed out in an interview with the Quds Press.
He explained that Abbas's armed militias use the same level of torture sessions against the kidnapped Hamas members as the Israeli occupation do with Palestinian prisoners in its jails, holding Abbas and Salam Fayyadh, the unconstitutional prime minister of the PA in the West Bank, fully responsible for the lives of kidnapped Palestinian citizens in their jails.
"We do indeed condemn such arrest campaigns against Hamas members in the West Bank, and we consider it a stab in the back of the Palestinian people and their just cause. However, we would like to remind Abbas and his retinue that the hardest waves of arrests and deportation measures against Hamas at the hands of the Israeli occupation and the PA in the past had failed in twisting Hamas's arm or pushing it to the corner", Resheq underscored.
[ 03/09/2010 - 06:00 PM ]
RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- A Palestinian academic was taken to hospital late Thursday night after deterioration in his health while in a PA security detention center in Ramallah.
Aziz Haroun Kayed, who also served as an undersecretary in the tenth government, was arrested by the PA security on 1 July 2010, according to the National Committee for the Defence of Prisoners in PA Jails.
The committee said in a statement on Friday that after Kayed was examined and treated at hospital, there was no improvement in his condition which prompted the PA security to take him home to his family at 5:00 am and tell his family that if his condition improved by Saturday afternoon, he should hand himself over to the security services.
The so called PA Preventive Security first arrested Kayed on 9 August 2009, just a few days after his release from an Israeli occupation jail after serving 38 months.
Kayed was subjected to barbaric treatment and torture at the Beitunia preventive security head quarters despite suffering from various ailments.
Kayed hails from the historic town of Sabastya near Nablus. He is 46 years old and carries a Masters degree in Political Science. He has worked as and academic and researcher. He was detained by the Israeli occupation five times serving a total of 6 years in occupation jails.
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