IOF soldiers detain 16 Palestinians including Hamas leader, children, PA security arrests two Hamas supporters, summons others

Thursday 21 July 2011

IOF soldiers detain 16 Palestinians including Hamas leader, children, PA security arrests two Hamas supporters, summons others

PA security arrests two Hamas supporters, summons others

[ 21/07/2011 - 10:49 AM ]
RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- West Bank security agencies have continued to persecute Hamas's supporters at a time when the political leadership of the Fatah party, which governs the West Bank, has issued statements on its commitment to reconciling with Hamas.

Preventative security in Nablus arrested Wednesday ex-prisoner Mohammed Bana after summoning him for an interrogation. He was later transferred to the Juneid prison in the city.

Bana had already been detained by the Palestinian Authority's security agencies and sentenced to eight months by the military courts.

A few days ago, PA security also arrested Tha'er Abu Amsha from Zawata village west of Nablus.

The West Bank intelligence agencies have been continually summoning many Palestinians returning from Saudi Arabia after performing pilgrimage rights.

Also a few days back, the military courts have postponed a court hearing for Huda Mora'iba from Qalqilya to mid-September.

Palestinian lawmaker Imad Nofel said the PA must release the political prisoners before they are forced to go on hunger strike to have their demands and legal rights met.

The statement came after Mohammed Saeed Ramadan Hoteri, who is imprisoned by Qalqilya security services, announced that he had gone on hunger strike for the past three days.

Nofel said the prisoner's family said he has been detained for seven months and is protesting the fact that he has yet to receive a fair trial.

IOF soldiers detain 16 Palestinians including Hamas leader, children

[ 21/07/2011 - 08:52 AM ]

NABLUS, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) rounded up 16 Palestinians in various West Bank areas at dawn Thursday including Hamas leader and well-known reformist Ghanim Sawalme.

Relatives of Sawalme told the PIC reporter that more than 30 IOF soldiers broke into the family home in a pre-dawn raid and ordered his brother Ghalib, after detaining all other family members in one room, to lead them to Ghanim’s home under gunpoint.

They said that the soldiers then stormed Ghanim’s home and took him away blindfolded and handcuffed after checking his ID.

Ghanim was held in Israeli occupation jails for eight years on several past occasions and was banished to the Gaza Strip back in 2004 for two years. He was sentenced to 18 months in PA jails in 2009 only few days after his release from Israeli occupation prisons.

The Israeli radio said that the IOF troops arrested 16 Palestinians in the West Bank for questioning including four children form Kober village near Ramallah.

The IOF troops had detained on Wednesday 150 Palestinian workers including 30 women while heading to their workplaces in 1948 occupied Palestine from the West Bank.

A number of those detained workers said that the IOF held them while trying to cross the separation wall in occupied Jerusalem.

They said that the occupation police forced them to sign papers pledging not to return to work in 1948 occupied Palestine and threatened to impose on them heavy fines if they did, adding that the female workers were questioned on places of their work while a number of other laborers were detained.