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<td><span class="PublishedDate">[ 					11/01/2011 &#8211; 02:27 PM ] </span></td>
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<p style="font-size:10pt;">GAZA, (PIC)&#8211; The Palestinian interior  ministry in Gaza allowed Fatah lawmaker Ashraf Juma&#8217;h to visit on  Monday evening the detainees in Gaza jail in order to make sure there  were no hunger strikers or people imprisoned for political reasons as he  claimed earlier.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Juma&#8217;h was accompanied during his check  visit to the rehabilitation center west of Gaza by Hamas MP Ismail  Al-Ashqar, spokesman for the interior ministry Ihab Al-Ghussein, and  director of rehabilitation centers Nasser Suleiman.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The Fatah lawmaker met with all detainees,  including a number of Fatah supporters, who were jailed on charges of  committing criminal offenses against other citizens in Gaza.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">He listened to the inmates affiliated with  Fatah inside the center and found his allegations about the hunger  striker were not true.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The prisoners, for their part, affirmed to  the MP that they are nicely treated by the prison administration and  members of the interior ministry, and that all their needs they ask for  are provided. They also denied they went on hunger strike.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">However, the Fatah lawmaker, after he made  sure that his claims about the hunger strike was unfounded, insisted  that the inmates affiliated with Fatah were political detainees,  although they were proven guilty in a court of law of killing citizens  and committing different serious crimes.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Following the visit, senior Hamas official  and lawmaker Ismail Al-Ashqar demanded in a statement Fatah MP Ashraf  Juma&#8217;h to take back his remarks about the presence of hunger strikers in  Gaza jails and work on allowing Hamas MPs to make a similar visit to  Fatah jails in the West Bank.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Ashqar stressed that the interior ministry  approved this visit in order to refute all claims and lies that were  propagated by Fatah and the independent committee, pointing out that the  visit will be aired on TV to confirm further the veracity of the  reports issued by some human rights organizations who visited Gaza jails  recently.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Earlier on the same day, the Palestinian  interior ministry denied the presence of any political detainees in Gaza  jails and described the remarks made by Ashraf Juma&#8217;h as contrary to  the truth and misleading.</p>
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