Parliamentary bloc denounces the West Bank's security practices against Hamas and it's members

The Change and Reform parliamentary bloc of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, demanded that the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank immediately release all political prisoners, as a step towards national reconciliation, in solidarity with prisoners in Israeli jails. The bloc called on Palestinian factions to express their views and raise their voices in the face of what it called “the Fatah Authority that collaborates with the Occupation.”

In a statement, the group denounced the fact that security services in the West Bank broke into the home of Hamas MP Mohamed El Tal in the city of Hebron, and “kidnapped” his brother Rami. It held the Fatah movement and its parliamentary bloc responsible for the “violations and crimes” committed against the Change and Reform bloc MPs in the West Bank.

It also accused the security services in the West Bank – which it described as “organs of the Fatah authority” -of carrying out a systematic crackdown on Hamas MPs in the West Bank, and of breaking into their homes and offices and arresting their sons and brothers in a manner that is clearly consistent with the Zionist occupation.

The bloc also held Fatah and its agencies responsible for obstructing the work of the Palestinian Legislative Council in the West Bank, and preventing PLC speaker Aziz Dweik and the council’s MPs from entering its premises until this moment, which is considered by the bloc to be an explicit infringement on the will of the Palestinian people, a flagrant violation of parliamentary immunity, and a continuation of the role of the occupation.