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<td><span class="PublishedDate">[ 					14/11/2010 &#8211; 04:05 PM ] </span></td>
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<p style="font-size:10pt;">WEST BANK, (PIC)&#8211; Hamas lawmakers in  the West Bank have called on Palestinian Authority security forces to  release all political prisoners as the Eid holiday approaches.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The deputies appealed in a press statement  Sunday to the PA militia to offer a goodwill gesture towards the people  whose families were affected by the unjustified spree of arrests  against resistance movement supporters in the West Bank.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">“Since June 16, 2007 security services in  the West Bank have been abducting Islamic movement supporters and  placing them in prisons under the most severe torture. The continuation  of detention of citizens in Palestinian security establishment prisons  in the West Bank in addition to the different sorts of torture they are  exposed to demonstrates a blatant violation of human rights in the  stricken West Bank,” the Palestinian officials said.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Families of prisoners in the West Bank  wrote Sunday to Fatah party leaders in an appeal for the release of  their loved ones before the Eid celebrations.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The families highlighted that Israel was  the one benefiting from the Palestinian division, and that the holiday  was “a chance for Palestinians to turn the pages of the past”.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">They went on to say that freeing the  political prisoners would be a step in the right direction towards  reconciliation and proof of good intention.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">In a related context, exclusive sources  told the PIC that a PA preventative security investigator placed the  head of a detainee from northern Al-Khalil between his legs as other  security elements from the preventative security beat him in the face  with their shoes until he finally lost consciousness.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Preventative security elements reportedly  visited the cell of the victim Mohammed al-Qashqesh’s while he was  unconscious and the investigator asked detainees close to the victim if  he was dead or still alive.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7ko7yJJ4OusHGMLZTb9Ttuzah%2f1mvOxI4%2bms3D21Wd1vJV%2bzT3BBOgVt%2fHx8w1t%2fhwNXqdi5%2f7BD0b0vv2Hu30VORagoAOknAkTLzp2B0lF0%3d">Hamas deputies call on PA to release political prisoners for holidays</a>.</p>
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