NABLUS (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority has refused to release the Palestinian detainee Fayez Ziyadat despite suffering cancer and despite the medical report which said his incarceration threatened his life.
Lawyer of the Palestinian prisoner’s club said in a press release on Wednesday that the Israeli committee studying such cases was advised by the Israeli intelligence not to agree to Ziyadat’s release claiming that he posed a security threat and that he might form armed cells after his release.
Meanwhile the IOA held the Hamas spokesman in Tulkarem Ra’fat Nassif and Issam Al-Ashkar a lecturer in Al-Najah University in Nablus for six months in custody under administrative detention without trial or charge.
Fares Abu Hassan the lawyer of the international Tadamun institution for human rights said that the military prosecution in Ofer jail issued the ruling.
Nassif and Ashkar were rounded up a week ago in a campaign targeting Hamas MPs and leaders after failure of negotiations on the prisoners’ swap deal between the Palestinian resistance and Israel.
The Israeli internal security minister Avi Dichter said in a statement to radio Israel on Wednesday that his government was pondering preventing Palestinian prisoners from following up academic studies in line with a set of new tough measures against those detainees after the failure of the swap negotiations.
An Israeli court also extended the detention of 22 Palestinians from Um El-Faham city for 24 hours on the charge of participating in protests against the Israeli fanatic march in their town on Tuesday.
