RAMALLAH (Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - As the PA security militia continues its arrest spree of Hamas supporters in the West Bank, the families of PA security prisoners Faras Jarar and Ala Abu Khadir, who were both granted free trips to hajj sponsored by the Saudi King for political prisoners released from Israeli jails, called on the monarch to intervene to release their loved ones and allow them to enjoy the hajj trip they were awarded this year.
The families said they were shocked and saddened that the Palestinian Authority (in Ramallah) would hinder their trip instead of Israeli authorities.
Abu Khadir and Jarar were arrested by the militia a month back after they were released a year ago after serving 16 year bids in Israeli prisons.
Moreoever, a university lecturer, Ghassan Thouqan, was summoned for questioning by the militia immediately after his release from Israeli prisons.
Dr. Ghassan Thouqan was handed a summons in Nablus immediately following his release after spending three years in administrative prison in several facilities in Israel.
Shehab agency reporter Amir Abu Arafat was arrested after his Al-Khalil home was raided a few days back. Arafat was an ex-political prisoner who spent several months in Israeli prisons.
In continuation of the PA-Israeli security cooperation, ex-detainee Saied Bakr Bilal was arrested while attempting to travel to Jordan. Bilal who was arrested on several other occasions by PA security was reportedly a student at the Al-Najah University and the son of Bakr Bilal, a prisoner in Israeli detention.
Another PA detainee Badr Abu Ayyash suffers severe critical medical conditions and was ruled to be released by the supreme justice court a month after his arrest in September.
A day after the ruling was made, he was released to the prison main gates and then rearrested after police told him they fulfilled the order.
Ayyash’s wife, who visited him Thursday, said he was suffering from tremors of the limbs and could not walk without extreme difficulty. She said his body had turned yellow and he could not communicate with her properly.
Ayyash had spent a total of 16 years in Israeli prisons, and was previously arrested twice by the PA security force.
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