Hamas detainees slam the arrest of 15 Hamas supporters by Palestinian forces

Saturday November 03, 2007 04:39 by IMEMC Staff

Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons, members of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, slammed on Friday the arrest of 15 Hamas supporters by Palestinian forces in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, including four who were recently released from Israeli detention facilities.

Archive Photo; Hamas supporters in Hebron

Sources close to Hamas movement reported that Palestinian security forces attacked a dinner party held by one of the residents to honor four detainees who were recently released from an Israeli detention center.

The sources added that the security forces arrested fifteen residents, including the four residents who were recently released from Israeli prisons. The four were identified as Hisham Al Tarda, Shareef Khamaisa, Ibrahim Khamaisa and Tawfeeq Khamaisa.

Hamas detainees imprisoned by Israel slammed the attack and considered it “an act which shames the security forces”, and demanded their release.

In a statement released on Friday, the detainees demanded the Palestinian security forces in the West Bank, loyal to Fateh movement, to release all political prisoners without any preconditions and to stop all political arrests.

In a related incident, media sources close to Hamas movement reported on Friday that Palestinian security forces arrested on Thursday seven students, members of the Islamic Bloc, at the Arab American University in Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank.

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