Bahr warns Israel of intended violence against ex-prisoners - Zahhar: Israel Menace to Kill Freed Detainees to Boost Public

Zahhar: Israel Menace to Kill Freed Detainees to Boost Public

Israeli government threats to assassinate prisoners freed under an exchange deal with Hamas are an attempt to satisfy their public, Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahhar told reporters on Sunday. The senior Hamas figure downplayed Israel's intention to extend its tactic of targeted killings to the prisoners released in exchange for Israeli occupation soldier Gilad Shalit. Israel is "making these threats in an attempt to lighten the heavy price they paid" for agreeing to free over 1,000 Palestinians detained in Israeli jails for Shalit. On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that if any of the freed prisoners return to terrorism, they "do so at their own risk," Israeli daily The Jerusalem Post reported. Zahhar said such statements show "how desperate (Israel) felt in the face of the Palestinian resistance's accomplishment in forcing (the government) to yield to the conditions" set out by the Hamas negotiators for the exchange. He warned Israel that resistance fighters are able to respond "promptly and appropriately" to any attempt to harm the freed prisoners.

Bahr warns Israel of intended violence against ex-prisoners

[ 24/10/2011 - 04:06 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- First deputy speaker of the Palestinian legislative council Ahmed Bahr warned the Israeli government and its settlers that they would pay dearly if any hostile acts were carried out against the Palestinian ex-detainees who were released following a swap deal with Hamas Movement.

In a press release on Sunday, Bahr noted that Jewish groups and societies declared financial rewards for anyone who murders some of the ex-prisoners freed as part of the recent exchange deal, but he warned that any kind of violence against them would not go unpunished.

He also pointed that some Knesset members also incited against them and demanded the freed prisoners to be more careful in the occupied lands of the West Bank and Jerusalem following these threats.

The lawmaker stressed that any malicious acts against those ex-detainees must be confronted with a serious national position at the highest levels.

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