Tuesday 23 June 2009

Hamas suspends its participation in reconciliation meetings with Fatah


Hamas suspends its participation in reconciliation meetings with Fatah

[ 23/06/2009 - 03:50 PM ]

RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- Hamas lawmaker Dr. Omar Abdelrazek said that his Movement decided to suspend its participation in the meetings of the security reconciliation committee held with Fatah leaders due to their failure to end the political arrest file in the West Bank.

Dr. Abdelrazek, a member of this committee, added that this decision was taken because Fatah refused to set a schedule for the release of political prisoners and specific mechanisms for ending this file in the West Bank while the PA arrest campaigns are still escalating every day.

In the context of arrest campaigns, Omamah website said that the PA security apparatuses kidnapped unprecedentedly 64 Palestinian citizens affiliated with Hamas on Monday in different West Bank cities including a Palestinian prisoner’s wife from Nablus, two professors, seven students, five ex-detainees and a judge.

These security apparatuses also kidnapped three Palestinian citizens from Al-Shuyukh town, east of Al-Khalil city.

Palestinian sources said that a large number of PA security forces boarding eight military vehicles stormed Al-Shuyukh town’s neighborhoods last night, and broke into and ransacked a number of homes including the house of Abdullah Al-Halayka.

Al-Halayka family reported that the PA militia told them they were looking for weapons hidden in the house, but they found nothing and instead they confiscated a small picture of martyr Sheikh Ahmad Yassin.

In another context, Hamas lawmaker Mona Mansour warned Tuesday, in a press interview with Palestine newspaper, of the gravity of the Zionist judaization practices in occupied Jerusalem which are aimed to change the demographic equation and the Arab and Muslim identity of the city.

MP Mona called on the Palestinian factions to take action to save the holy city and its people from the Zionist threats and to hasten to achieve the national reconciliation to confront the ferocious schemes in the West Bank and Jerusalem.

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