A commission for supporting the Palestinians inside the Green Line has strongly denounced the Israeli security authorities for persisting in persecuting Sheikh Kamal al-Khatib a senior official of the high follow-up committee for Arab citizens of Israel and head of its committee of freedoms prisoners and martyrs.
“What Sheikh Khatib is being exposed to is a continuation of the aggressive policy that aims to obliterate our political social and human existence in our occupied land” head of the commission Helmi al-Balbisi said in a press release on Thursday.
Balbisi expressed his belief that “Israel’s hostile attitude towards the symbols of the Palestinian national action in occupied Palestine is a prelude to declaring itself as a Jewish state.”
The Israeli police last Tuesday raided the house of Sheikh Khatib in Kafr Kanna town (Galilee) and arrested him to interrogate him about communicating with what they called banned groups before releasing him on the same day.
Sheikh Khatib had been detained and summoned arbitrarily by the police several times before and there is a ban on his travel.
