Arab impotence, international collusion encourages Israeli aggression - PA boosts summonses targeting Islamic Jihad Movement in the West Bank

PA boosts summonses targeting Islamic Jihad Movement in the West Bank

[ 30/12/2010 - 12:35 PM ]

RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- Palestinian Authority security militias have recently boosted steps to summon Islamic Jihad Movement cadres and supporters in the West Bank for questioning, the Jihad movement said, warning that the trend could be a stab at inflaming division.

Dozens of the movement's people in the West Bank, Jenin and Tulkarem in particular, have been called in for interrogation by PA intelligence.

Palestinians released from Israeli detention as well as the party's leaders and figures are considered primary targets.

“We were surprised that Jihad movement activists have been summoned to preventative security and intelligence main headquarters in Ramallah and Beituniya. It raises our suspicions.”

“Cadres are often summoned over social or scholastic activities, which reflects the PA's pursuit to suppress and prevent any resistance activities,” an Islamic Jihad Movement official said.

“The targeting of its cadres and supporters in the West Bank is crippling national relations, and does not serve reconciliation. It is an attempt to spread division,” the source went on to say.

“The Islamic Jihad Movement is deeply concerned over the approach of the PA and its agencies, which ignore national calls and demands to achieve reconciliation.”

“These policies constitute a blow to freedom of thought and expression and reflect insistence on exclusivity and monopoly of activities and rejection of pluralism.”

Jihad: Arab impotence, international collusion encourages Israeli aggression

[ 30/12/2010 - 10:26 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- The Islamic Jihad movement in Palestine has said that the Gaza Strip was under "aggression by installment" on the part of the Israeli occupation forces.

Jihad leader Sheikh Khader Habib told Al-Alam satellite channel on Wednesday night that if the "Zionist enemy" goes too far in its daily attacks and crimes then the resistance will take appropriate decisions.

He said that the war on Gaza did not stop but took other shapes such as the siege and daily incursions.

The Jihad leader charged that Arab impotence and international collusion had encouraged Israel to launch more aggressions.

Representatives of various factions met on Tuesday and concluded that the Palestinian people are entitled to respond to Israel's crimes, Khader said, adding, however, that they would determine the opportune time and place for retaliating to those crimes.

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