Deputy chairman of Hamas political bureau Ismail Haneyya called Monday for mobilizing support for the Palestinian detainee Fouad al-Shoubaki held in Israeli jails.
Haneyya’s solidarity was expressed a few days after the national campaign to push for the release of al-Shoubaki appealed to the International Red Cross among other concerned bodies to urgently work on releasing the elderly detainee.
The campaign’s coordinator Abed al-Mutalib al-Nakhal said prisoner al-Shoubaki aged nearly 80 years old has been diagnosed with life-threatening diseases most notably prostate cancer renal insufficiency abdominal muscle weakness and sight disorders.
Haneyya called on all concerned institutions to immediately step in and push for the release of al-Shoubaki before it is too late.
Haneyya expressed his support for the protest moves initiated by the Palestinians in Israeli lock-ups vowing that the prisoners’ cause will forever top Hamas’s resistance agenda.
In 2002 prisoner al-Shoubaki was sentenced to four years in the Palestinian Authority (PA) Jericho jail under British and American supervision.
Al-Shoubaki who served as former chief of financial affairs at the General Security Service and President Yasser Arafat’s financial adviser was sent to Israeli prisons after the Israeli occupation forces kidnapped him from Jericho jail on March 14 2006 in collaboration with the PA security apparatuses.
