Among those who were arrested in Al-Khalil because of their political affiliation are two brothers called Yehya and Zakariya Saleh. Both of them are still students at Al-Khalil university and has a brother called Isa who was kidnapped two months ago by the PA intelligence and is still in prison.
Two students from Birzeit university in Ramallah were also kidnapped and jailed alongside other students from the same university.
The PA preventive security, for its part, sill refuses to release prisoner Najeh Assi from solitary confinement, although his health reportedly deteriorated badly and he lost more than 15 kilograms of his weight. He was detained for allegedly taking pictures of slain Hamas figure Majd Al-Barghouthi, who was tortured to death more than two years ago in PA jails.
The PA security apparatuses in Jenin have been holding Hamas official Ibrahim Nawahda for more than one month and refused appeals to release him especially after his health worsened.
For their part, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed and ransacked the home of a prisoner in PA jails called Khaldun Assida, who works as a teacher in Nablus city.
In Tulkarem, the IOF kidnapped a Palestinian citizen called Basel Abu Hajar after summoning him for interrogation. He is a mosque imam and has been kidnapped several times before by the PA security militias.
In a separate incident, a news conference held in Nazareth city on Saturday revealed that PA minister of religious affairs Mahmoud Al-Habbash, who is now in Makkah, manipulated a number of the pilgrimage invitations given by Saudi king Abdullah Bin Abdelaziz as part of his generous gesture to 2, 000 Palestinians.
Coordinator of the Arab association for detainees and ex-detainees Munir Mansour said that Habbash tampered with 200 invitations allocated to the pilgrims of occupied Jerusalem and the 1948 occupied lands, and gave 30 of them to his hangers-on and the others to different people.
King Abdullah had announced his intention to host 2,000 Palestinian pilgrims, including relatives of prisoners serving life sentences, released prisoners as well as relatives of martyrs from Jerusalem and the 1948 occupied lands.
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WEST BANK, (PIC)-- PA security forces arrested this month 163 Palestinians throughout the West Bank, among them 74 ex-detainees who were released from Israeli jails, and transferred 40 detainees for military trials over their political affiliation, the Hamas movement in Gaza reported Saturday.
The official report added that Israeli forces arrested 13 Hamas supporters who were previously released by the PA security militia, while the PA security arrested a number of Hamas affiliates immediately after their release from Israeli prisons.
This month saw a number of security-related visits between Israeli and PA leaders, the group went on to say, noting that a joint committee between PA security forces and Israeli intelligence was formed this month to investigate several detainees who were transferred to the Jericho central prison.
The PA government in Ramallah sacked 13 employees over their political affiliation to Hamas, including six teachers and seven charity organization workers. A number of employees were arbitrarily transferred from their work places.
In a related context, the PA security militia raided the West Bank town of Yatta on Saturday after setting up several checkpoints and obstructing the movement of workers, local sources told the Palestinian Information Center.
The militia delivered summonses to tens of the townspeople and arrested a number of elements from the Islamic Jihad Movement.
In a separate development, the Muslim Youth association in the West Bank launched a campaign to refuse yielding to PA security summonses in light of the security forces’ excessive use of summonses “as a weapon to disrupt the daily lives of Hamas supporters, break their morale, and spread a climate of terror on the Palestinian society.”
The association called for a stop to voluntary responses to PA security summonses under the slogan: “Whoever wants me, come and arrest me.”
The group argued that answering to summonses to PA headquarters supports the PA’s position and boosts its influence on the Palestinian society, adding that arrests are less detrimental than constant responses to security summonses.
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