Saturday 26 March 2011

Palestinian hospitalized after health deteriorates in PA custody

[ 26/03/2011 - 03:06 PM ]

RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- Moatasim al-Natsheh, 25, has been hospitalized after his health deteriorated while held by the Palestinian Authority in the Jericho prison in Ramallah.

He had been held in solitary confinement since September 2010 when his father and brothers were arrested among 1,400 other Hamas supporters targeted by PA intelligence in a West Bank arrest campaign.

He is brother to Maamoun al-Natsheh, a Qassam Brigades fighter who was killed in a resistance attack.

The PA intelligence agency intends to prosecute Moatasim and several more of Hamas's men detained in Jericho next Sunday.

Separately, the PA security services arrested at least eight Hamas supporters on Friday following the Jerusalem bombing that left one woman dead and around 19 injured.

Four of those men were from the Islamic Jihad Movement in Al-Khalil district and have all been identified as ex-prisoners in Israeli jails.

Another one of those detained was a mosque preacher who condemned politically motivated arrests sweeping the West Bank and who blamed Fatah's refusal to accept election results as the reason for the current Palestinian split during Friday's sermon.

The same day, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) raided several homes in Tulkarem and gave summonses to several Hamas supporters previously held by the PA security militias in order to be questioned by Israeli intelligence.

In Dura near Al-Khalil, the IOF arrested Qusai Nasasira just one week after he was released after serving six months in PA detention.

They arrested another Bethlehem man 50 days after he was released by PA intelligence.

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