RAMALLAH (PIC)– Large numbers of IOF troops have raided the headquarters of a local humanitarian foundation catering for the affairs of former Palestinian captives and ransacked it Palestinian sources affirmed.
Fuad Al-Hodaly a member of the foundation’s administrative council confirmed the raid and accused the IOF troops of forcibly entering the building after seizing and threatening its security guard.
He added that the soldiers destroyed at least three computers of the foundation and confiscated documents and files pertaining to the foundation’s activities and programs in rehabilitating Palestinian ex-prisoners and the foundation’s legal papers.
Furthermore Hodaly charged that the IOF troops’ raid meant to abort his foundation’s plans to socially help the former captives and to search for evidence that could indict the foundation’s head Sami Hussein who was arrested 45 days ago and retained in detention without charges or trial.
The IOA accuses Huesein of establishing “suspicious” links but failed to substantiate those allegations so far Hodaly revealed.
He also asserted that his foundation focuses on the former captives’ social welfare and that it does not carry out any political activities whatsoever.
Furthermore a report issued by the PA prisoners and ex-prisoners ministry- Tulkarem branch- has unveiled that at least 55 Palestinian captives were serving multiple-life imprisonment-terms in Israeli jails on top of them Hamas’ political leader Abbas Al-Sayyed 35 life-imprisonment- terms among other captives.
Around 133 of the captives were also serving terms above ten years including 26 of them who are serving jail-terms of more than twenty years.
Out of the district’s 900 captives in Israeli jails 335 of them were serving various jail terms.
Ten of the district’s women in addition to tens of its childrens are still in detention.
Around 126 Palestinian women and 350 Palestinian children are languishing in Israeli jails in harsh incarceration conditions
In the same context the PA office lashed out at the IOF troops’ arbitrary arrest campaigns in the district as well as the rest of the Palestinian occupied lands describing such frenzied campaigns as “unprecedented”.
As a result the office appealed to international legal and human rights organizations and groups to immediately spare the Palestinian captives the relentless Israeli humiliating practices in Israeli prisons.
It also urged those groups as well as other concerned parties to exert all efforts to free the Palestinian captives affirming that numbers of those captives were on the rise as they reached 12400 prisoners.
