Senior Hamas official Abdul-Hakim Hanini said that Palestinian Authority (PA) chief Mahmoud Abbas did not only take punitive measures against his own people in Gaza but also in the West Bank through arresting hundreds of its finest sons.
In press remarks Hanini stated that more than 200 citizens mostly university students and ex-detainees released from Israeli jails had been arrested for politically motivated reasons in the West Bank since Abbas’s speech on March 19.
He described the escalating political arrest campaign in the West Bank as part of the policy of exclusion monopoly and mass punishment pursued by the PA leadership against the Palestinians and their political forces in the West Bank and Gaza.
The Hamas official called on all concerned local and international institutions to investigate the detention of citizens illegally in the West Bank and release reports in this regard.
