Hamas calls on PA to release all political prisoners

Hamas yesterday called on the Palestinian Authority (PA) to release all Palestinian political prisoners before the end of Ramadan.

In a press release, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said: “The PA’s continuous chasing and detention of Palestinian resistance fighters and activists, raiding homes and scaring women and children are shameful actions.”

“The PA’s adoption of the Israeli occupation’s policies in the light of the Israeli escalation and aggression on our people in the occupied West Bank, Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa Mosque and occupied Palestine does not serve the Palestinian interests.”

He stressed that the PA’s practices against Palestinian resistance fighters and activists undermines their ability to resist the occupation’s plans and settlement and Judaisation projects “which are the biggest danger that threatens the Palestinian cause.”

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