GAZA (PIC)– Ismail Haneyya the PA premier has expressed his personal concern with the question of the Bethlehem deportees and his keenness on their return to their hometown the soonest.
Haneyya during a meeting with those deportees in his office in Gaza city on Saturday listened to their demands and needs.
The 39 deportees had asked the Hamas Movement and all concerned parties to include them in the prisoners’ swap deal with Israel and put the condition of their return to their families and homes within the deal.
The deportees went on hunger strike for three days starting on Wednesday demanding an end to their banishment that has almost completed five years and called on all factions and Palestinian masses to declare solidarity with their question through visiting their sit-in tent pitched in central Gaza city.
The deportees who are fighters mainly affiliated with Hamas and Fatah movements were holed up in the Church of Nativity for 39 days before European mediators reached a deal with Israel according to which they were permitted to walk out unharmed but outside the Bethlehem namely to Gaza and a number of European countries.
