Shihab calls for stopping political arrests, security cooperation in W. Bank

[ 04/05/2011 - 09:25 AM ]

CAIRO, (PIC)-- Senior Islamic Jihad official Dawoud Shihab hailed the reconciliation agreement that was signed by the Palestinian resistance factions in Cairo on Tuesday as a positive step and demanded an immediate cessation of the security cooperation with the Israeli occupation in the West Bank.

In a press statement to the Palestinian information center (PIC), Shihab said the signing of the reconciliation agreement in Cairo was a first step and a new start that must protect the Palestinian people's interests, rights and national constants.

He stressed the need for sincerely translating this agreement into reality and closing the file of political arrests in the West Bank.

"There are many obstacles in the way of the reconciliation agreement that we should overcome and eliminate, especially the political arrests and the security cooperation with the occupation," the Islamic Jihad official underlined.

"Stopping the security coordination and releasing the detainees are steps that we should start with in order to build confidence, and I like to say clearly, 'we cannot close our eyes to the arrests happening to our brothers and sons at the hands of the security apparatuses and everyone will be in embarrassing situation if this continues,'" the official added.

In this regard, secretary-general of the Palestinian resistance committees Kamal Al-Neirab called for necessarily protecting the resistance and ending political arrests.

Neirab made his remarks on Tuesday during the meeting that was attended in Cairo by senior officials of the Palestinian factions to sign the reconciliation agreement.

The head of the resistance committees also called for forming a body of Palestinian factions assigned to protect the Palestinian resistance according to a unified vision in order to confront the Zionist schemes.

For its part, the family committee of political detainees in West Bank jails demanded de facto president Mahmoud Abbas to end the political arrests and summonses in order to create an atmosphere for the success of the national reconciliation.

In a statement, the committee said the Fatah-affiliated security apparatuses' persistence in carrying out political arrest campaigns in the West Bank raises questions over the feasibility of the reconciliation and reflects attempts to frustrate the agreement in this regard.

It called for immediately releasing all political detainees from West Bank jails in order to prove good faith and thus prevent the Israeli occupation from hindering the reconciliation agreement.

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Gaza security arrests spies working for Israeli intelligence

[ 27/04/2011 - 11:58 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- The Palestinian interior security apparatus said it arrested a number of informers who provide the Israeli intelligence with information about the resistance in Gaza, warning at the same time of considering everyone arrested or summoned a spy.

Senior security official Mohamed Lafi told Palestine newspaper that the interior security apparatus arrested recently a number of collaborators with the Israeli intelligence.

Lafi noted that anyone arrested or summoned by the interior security apparatus in Gaza is not necessarily a spy or agent because there are many security issues addressed by the apparatus other than espionage.

He affirmed that the Israeli intelligence redirected its agents in Gaza after the interior security disclosed techniques and devises used by them in a conference held by the interior ministry.

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Palestinian security arrest a number of suspected collaborators

[ 22/04/2011 - 11:17 AM ]

RAFAH, (PIC)-- Palestinian internal security sources in the Rafah district revealed that a number of suspected collaborators with the Israeli occupation were arrested over the past few days.

The sources added in a statement that was conveyed by the Hamas information office in Rafah on Thursday said that the internal security intensified their pursuit of possible collaborators after the assassination of Qassam commanders Tayseer Abu Selmeyyah and Muhammad Awajah.

The sources said that the actions resulted in the arrest of a number of suspected collaborators without revealing whether those arrested were involved in the assassinations or not.

A security official said that his department will keep on pursuing collaborators and bringing them to justice.

He added that awareness within Palestinian society has foiled dozens of attempts by the Shabak to recruit collaborators.

He praised the diligent work of the security officers as well as the public for their cooperation with the security officers in their pursuit of collaborators.
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Six Palestinians kidnapped in West Bank raids, Six citizens from Hamas taken prisoners by W. Bank militias

[ 18/04/2011 - 02:17 PM ]

WEST BANK, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnapped at dawn Monday six Palestinians from different West Bank areas.

The Hebrew radio said the Israeli army stormed at an earlier hour the cities of Al-Khalil, Bethlehem, Nablus and Ramallah and ransacked homes before detaining six Palestinians claimed to be wanted by the intelligence.

Local sources from Dura and Surif towns in Al-Khalil told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that two Hamas-affiliated Palestinians from Awawdeh family were kidnapped separately today.

The IOF carry out daily raids on West Bank cities and villages during which all security elements of the Palestinian authority are ordered to return to their headquarters until the invading Israeli soldiers finish their missions.

Six citizens from Hamas taken prisoners by W. Bank militias

[ 18/04/2011 - 02:24 PM ]

WEST BANK, (PIC)-- The Fatah-affiliated security militias in the West Bank are still persistent in their divisive acts and their security cooperation with Israel culminating their latest raids with the kidnapping of two Hamas-affiliated citizens in Nablus and Qalqiliya cities.

According to local sources on Monday, the militias kidnapped an ex-detainee called Khaled Assussa from Nablus. He previously spent two years in a Palestinian authority jail.

In Qalqiliya, they also detained a student called Mu'ad Barri, still pursuing his higher studies at Annajah university, after summoning him for interrogation. He was an ex-detainee in PA jail.

Citizen Omar Mara'I from Bani Hassan village in Salfit city still suffers from harassment by PA militias who summoned him yesterday for interrogation for the third consecutive week.

In a separate report, the PA preventive security in Nablus summoned ex-detainee Ammar Assad following his release from an Israeli jail. He spent eight years behind Israeli bars and was released a week ago.


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Man arrested in the Arrigoni murder case suspected of collaboration

[ 17/04/2011 - 09:08 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- The murder of Italian activist Vittorio Arrigoni raised the serious question as to who stands behind such a gruesome act, especially after the Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu declared he has plans to thwart solidarity with the Gaza Strip ”at any price”.

The Palestinian security awareness website Majd has revealed a few surprise discoveries as the case unravels and after several men were taken into custody over suspected involvement in the abduction and murder.

It has come to light that one of the suspects that has been arrested is also suspected of collaboration and has a number of violations on his list, while others appeared naïve.The website said that one of the men got orders to abduct and kill Arrigoni on the internet.

Analysts have not ruled out that Israeli intelligence was behind the crime, as the Israeli occupation faces a crisis in not being able to stop pro-Palestinian activists from going to Gaza and the publicity that accompanies such solidarity activities. That is in addition to growing western popular awareness regarding the facts about occupation which is effectively blowing the occupation’s cover of “legitimacy”.

The “group” responsible for the kidnapping and murder of Arrigoni killed him before the deadline it made for the government to release some of the “group's” elements, a step which implied premeditation.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Ismail Haneyya is scheduled to meet with the foreign press at the Council of Ministers in Gaza on Sunday to talk about Arrigoni's death and the steps the government has taken to pursue the case.

The crime stirred widespread popular anger amongst Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. They have declared that the crime only serves the Israeli occupation.

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