Hamas denies PA political prisoners breaking hunger strike[ 19/12/2010 - 06:30 PM ]
GAZA, (PIC)-- Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri denied in a press conference Sunday that elements from his movement who are presently being jailed for political reasons in PA security prisons have called off a hunger strike, as claimed recently by one security official.
The political prisoners kicked off a wide-ranging hunger strike after courts ruled in favor of providing them the rights they demanded, but officials inside the prison failed to respond. Abu Zuhri is holding the PA liable for the lives of the strikers.
“What was attributed to a security official about Hamas prisoners in the West Bank breaking their hunger strike is a mere media fabrication and baseless leaks aimed at ending pressure caused by the strike,” Abu Zuhri said.
“We assure that the strike of Hamas prisoners in the West Bank is still ongoing. There are other prisoners who have joined the strikers. We hold Fatah and the authority in Ramallah responsible for the lives of the strikers. We call on all concerned rights groups to intervene to stop the suffering of the strikers who demand their rights, as the courts have ruled for their release.”
A security official previously said Hamas detainees announced breaking their strike. “After calm dialogue with them, they ended their strike voluntarily, without coercion. They are currently enjoying good health as attested by rights groups who visited them,” the source said.
GAZA, (PIC)-- The Change and Reform bloc, the party representing Hamas in the Palestinian Legislative Council, staged Sunday a solidarity stand with the Hamas elements jailed by the PA security, who have gone on an open-ended hunger strike to protest the maltreatment they've sustained in the facilities.
The party holds the PA responsible for the health of the strikers, with the step evolving into a real threat to the lives of some of them as they go on their twenty-ninth day.
The detainees' cause is to expose the reality of the abuse and brutal torture they have fell victim to in the PA jails.
The sympathizers said the PA has begun to pose a serious threat to the Palestinians and their cause by working as an agent for Israel and taking turns with its security forces to uproot the resistance movement.
Palestine's prisoner affairs ministry called the PA's failure to release the Hamas political prisoners open treason and meeting Israel's wishes, despite the latter turning its back on the former.
The Fatah authority is holding more than 1,200 Hamas and Islamic Jihad movement affiliates, 500 of them ex-prisoners in Israeli facilities, the ministry reported.
Six of those prisoners have announced 28 days back going on an open hunger strike in an attempt at escaping the jails' torture and gaining their freedom. Palestinian courts have ruled that those prisoners be released, but the PA security agencies failed to recognize those decisions. They have distributed the prisoners througout several facilities and pressured them to end the strike. A security official surfaced recently with claims that the prisoners have called off the strike, an allegation Hamas has denied.
The prisoners affairs ministry in Gaza accused Fatah of working on behalf of Israel to break down the resistance movement and abduct and assassinate its men, calling on Hamas to abstain from reconciling with the group, which it said has betrayed the people and thrown themselves into the arms of the occupation.
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