Dr. Bahar condemns arresting and torturing combatants by Fatah security services in occupied West Bank

4 يناير/كانون الأول 2011 الساعة . 02:05 م   بتوقيت القدس

Gaza– Ministry of Interior
Dr. Ahmed Bahar, First Deputy of Legislative Council's Chairman, has denounced what were being done by Fatah security services in occupied West Bank, that pursuit the resistance fighters, arrest and torture them in their prisons.

 

Dr. Baharsaid:"The gift of Fatah movement in the anniversary of its start to the Palestinian people is arresting fighters, women and honorable people from all classes of the Palestinian people."
 
The speech of First Deputy of Legislative Council's Chairman was delivered within the activities of a sit-in organized in the Legislative Council by freed prisoners from the Israeli jails; to show solidarity with their detained brothers in Fatah prisons.

 

Dr. Bahar stressed that Fatah and its authority have stripped of all meanings of humanity and repudiated international and Palestinian law.

 

He also warned Authority of Fatah of humiliating the Palestinian people and their resistance, calling them for taking into consideration the history.
 
Moreover, Minister of Prisoners' affairs Mohammed Faraj Al-Ghoul, a number of MPs, many ministers of the Palestinian government, leaders of Palestinian parties and factions, leaders of national action and a group of freed and prisoners' families participated in the sit-in which was organized in the Legislative Council.

 

Al-Ghoul confirmed that the Authority of Fatah has violated the most basic rules of Palestinian and international law, through prosecuting and torturing the resistance and its fighters.
 
Al-Ghoul denied the existence of any political prisoners on hunger strikers in the Gaza Strip's prisons, declaring that the Palestinian government has deprived of political detention.

 

Also, Khader Habib, a leader in the Movement of Islamic Jihad, demanded Fatah Authority in the occupied West Bank to stop political arrests immediately and release all political prisoners from all parties in the West Bank's prisons.