[ 22/01/2011 - 10:12 AM ]
GAZA, (PIC)-- Senior Hamas official and lawmaker Mushir Al-Masri condemned the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority (PA) for sending its security militias to stalk and harass MP Mohamed Abu Juhaisha and preventing him from going to the mosque on Friday afternoon.
MP Masri stated in a press release that the PA militias prevented Abu Juhaisha from going to the mosque near his house to give his Friday Khutba (sermon) and hold the congregational prayer, adding that militia men pursued the lawmaker until they forced him to go back to his home where he had to perform his prayer.
He stressed that this act is part of the war being waged by the PA on Islam and its manifestations in the West Bank, represented in preventing many preachers and mosque imams from assuming their religious duties and closing hundreds of charities and centers of Qur'anic studies.
For his part, MP Mohamed Abu Juhaisha said that a number of PA militias kept following him from one street to another as he was on his way to the mosque for Friday prayer and encircled his house after he had to resort to it to avoid his detention.
PA security militias on several occasions harassed MP Abu Juhaisha and his family and still refuse to release his elder son Mu'ad who is imprisoned in Jericho jail, although he received a release order from the higher court of justice.
In a separate incident, the PA militias kidnapped in the last two days 11 Palestinian citizens affiliated with Hamas, including senior official Sheikh Salim Shamasneh, in the occupied cities of Bethlehem, Nablus, Jerusalem, and Jenin, according to different local sources on Saturday.
In Bethlehem, six other senior Hamas officials stood trial on Friday before the civil court which extended their detention and listened to the indictments filed against them by the PA.
Informed sources in Jenin reported that PA militia men attacked Friday evening Islamic Jihad leader Khadr Adnan during his presence at the funeral ceremony of martyr Salem Sammoudi in Yamoun village.
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