We have no political prisoners and a special prison for Internal Security Service
We have finished recruiting and collaborating with Israeli occupation
Gaza / Interior Ministry
Mohammed Lafi, director in Internal Security Service, confirmed that his administration has benefited greatly from the recent Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip at the end of 2008 and early 2009, stating that "through the lessons and examples that come out of aggression, we have developed plans to strengthen the internal front and protect the resistance."
Lafi stressed in an interview with "Interior Ministry" that they have immediately annihilated recruitment to collaborate with the Israeli occupation after the war through launching a "campaign against collaborating with the enemy." And he said: "We've got enough information to take advantage of it if a new Israeli aggression had happened," asserting their readiness to confront any aggression to preserve the Palestinian people and protect the internal front.
Emergency plan…
Lafi pointed out that they have developed an emergency plan to confront any Israeli escalation, adding "We are ready to deal with any Israeli escalation."
He explained that the missions of internal security's members will not change through any new Israeli aggression.
Lafi added: "Our work concerns with field follow-up in the Gaza Strip to strengthen the internal front and support the steadfastness of resistance."
Also, he denied the existence of any political prisoners in the prisons of internal security or rehabilitation centers of Interior Ministry in Gaza, and he said: "We are proud that we have no political prisoners and we do not have a private prison for internal security service."
Lafi added: "We have only detention and investigation office, which was being opened for everyone, whereas, the Red Cross visits it once a month."
He showed that they are allowing the human rights organizations to hold a meeting once or twice weekly, in addition to allow parents to visit their detained sons.
Campaign of "dignity and prestige"…
On the other hand, Lafi praised the results of campaign "citizen's dignity and policeman's prestige" which launched by the Ministry of Interior and National Security in the seventh of November 2010 and continued for fifty days.
He added: "The previous security services of Fatah played a pointless and useless role in our society, so, we are currently treating a completely different way."
Lafi showed that the Palestinian citizen in the Gaza Strip has felt safe, adding: "There is a complementarily between the security services during the campaigns which carried out by Ministry of Interior."
Painful for all Palestinians…
Regarding the situation in the occupied West Bank, where Fatah security services have pursued Hamas members, as well as the security coordination with the Israeli occupation, assuring that what happening in the occupied West Bank is very hurtful and painful for all Palestinians.
Lafi explained that the situation in Gaza Strip is different about what is happening in the occupied West Bank, and he advised Fatah security services to heed to the national program to protect the Palestinian people and support the internal front, denouncing their collaboration with the Israeli occupation forces.
Therefore, Lafi denounced the arrests and torture that committed by Fatah security services against the resistance men in their prisons in the occupied West Bank, believing that such actions violate the humanity of Palestinian citizen.
Lafi refused any comparison between agenda in Gaza and the violations which occur in the prisons of the occupied West Bank, and he said "This is shameful and wrong."
In response to the report of Al-Hayat correspondent in Gaza, Lafi said: "It was supposed that Fathi Sabah call us to know the truth and to open the prison for him to see the status of detainees, as we allowed many human rights organizations to visit the prisons."
