Hamas holds PA fully responsible for lives of political detainees in its jails

Sunday 2 January 2011

Hamas holds PA fully responsible for lives of political detainees in its jails

[ 02/01/2011 - 03:51 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- The Hamas Movement held the Fatah-controlled Palestinian authority (PA) and its security forces fully responsible for the lives and safety of all political prisoners in their jails, especially the hunger strikers in Jericho prison.

In a news conference held on Sunday in Gaza, Hamas spokesmen stated that in last year, the PA security militias and the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnapped in the context of their security cooperation more than 7,000 Palestinian citizens, most of them affiliated with Hamas.

The spokesman said that Fatah security militias kidnapped and tortured ex-detainees affiliated with Hamas after their release from Israeli jails in full coordination with the IOF, adding that the PA military courts also issued imprisonment sentences in absentia against Hamas prisoners in Israeli jails.

They stressed that all conspiracies and repressive acts against Hamas in the West Bank will never deviate it from its true role in resisting the occupation, stressing at the same time that their Movement will keep thwarting all schemes made against the Palestinian people and their national cause.

Resistance factions stage Gaza sit-in to protest West Bank political arrests
[ 02/01/2011 - 05:08 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- Palestinian resistance movement factions have staged a sit-in on the Legislative Council's courtyard in Gaza city to reiterate their opposition to the unjustified spree of political arrests the PA is responsible for in the West Bank.

Hamas issued a statistical report to mark the new year documenting the PA's politically motivated arrests against Palestinians in the West Bank. Hundreds of Hamas supporters remain to be held in West Bank prisons.

"The political arrests have stood as an obstacle in the path of achieving Palestinian reconciliation and national unity," said Islamic Jihad Movement leader Khadir Habib for his part. "What Fatah is doing in the West Bank is in service to Israel at the expense of the Palestinians' security."

Khalid Abu Hilal, a key member of the Palestinian freeman's movement, called on West Bank citizens to join forces with the political detainees and revolt against officials, adding that Fatah's conduct will require serious mobilization.