Palestinian movements, including Hamas and Al-Ahrar, condemned the Palestinian Authority (PA) crackdown on Palestinian citizens in the occupied West Bank, describing the PA’s actions as a “national crime,” Quds Press reported yesterday.
The PA raided the houses of Palestinian citizens, who have been released from Israeli jails, as well as the homes of others affiliated to Hamas and other resistance factions, and arrested them.
In a statement, Hamas described the PA attack on former prisoner Naser Habayneh’s homes in Jenin as a “crime”, after PA security forces assaulted his home, destroyed its contents and created such havoc by attempting to arrest his 15-year-old son as to cause his wife to miscarry their unborn child.
Hamas called for the PA to stop its “irresponsible actions” that target those who were freed from Israeli prisons, as well as the PA’s assaults on activists.
Meanwhile, Al-Ahrar called the arrests a “national crime and a sign of shame on the forehead of the PA’s leadership,” noting that the security forces’ actions was part of a policy of security cooperation with the Israeli occupation.
Al-Ahrar said that the PA’s action against various Palestinians “reflects a corrupt policy” which is not in favour of the Palestinians but instead “serves” the Israeli occupation.
Quds Press reported that the PA rejected the accusations of politically-motivated arrests, but national and international rights groups have repeatedly accused the PA of carrying out arrests on political grounds and several times reported torture inside PA prisons.
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