GAZA (PIC)– Hamas Movement has urged the Palestinian people especially Palestinian factions political parties and civil societies among other sectors in occupied Palestine to organize the widest ever pro-prisoners campaign to draw the world’s attention to the suffering of Palestinian captives in Israeli jails.
In a statement it issued and a copy of which was obtained by the PIC Hamas asserted “The savage IOF troops’ storming of the Beer Sheba jail and the physical assault on the Palestinian captives there is an obvious undermining of international laws and conventions on the part of the Israeli occupation government”.
The statement noted that Hamas jailed leader Yahya Al-Senwar was harshly assaulted despite his deteriorated health condition. The Movement warned the IOA not to jeopardize Senwar’s life.
“The persistent IOF assaults on Palestinian captives in Israeli jails unmask the ugly image of the Israeli occupation government and its brutal policy against the Palestinian people” the statement underlined.
Hamas also urged all international and legal institutions to immediately intervene to stop Israel’s intimidation of Palestinian prisoners and to force the IOA implement the Geneva accord on POWs in order to preserve dignity and rights of those prisoners.
More than 11000 Palestinian citizens including hundreds of minors and women among others are languishing in Israeli jails in the West Bank and in the 1948-occupied Palestinian lands.
Scores of Palestinian citizens are rounded up at the hands of the IOF troops across the West Bank almost daily as Israel uses them to pressure the PA Hamas-led government into bowing to its dictates which the PA government vowed not to happen.
Solidarity despite wounds:
Despite their agonies and wounds Palestinian prisoners in the occupation jails announced their full solidarity with Sami Al-Haj the cameraman of Al-Jazeera satellite TV channel who has been in detention at the infamous US Guantanamo concentration camp since 2002.
The prisoners considered Al-Haj’s continued detention as blatant US violation of journalism freedom and urged international human rights organizations including the ICRC to secure Al-Haj’s safe release.
Al-Haj a Sudanese national was covering the US-led NATO war on Afghanistan in October 2001 when he captured by the American forces and taken to Guanatanamo. He went on hunger strike 35 days ago amidst reports suggesting sharp deterioration in his health condition. Hundreds of Muslims were detained in that ill-fated camp for six years without trial or charges.
