Hamas holds Israel responsible for safety of hunger striking MP Yasser Mansour

Member of Hamas’s political bureau Ezzat Al-Resheq strongly denounced Israel’s persistance in violating the rights of the Palestinian lawmakers in its jails and held it fully responsible for the safety of MP Yasser Manousr, who recently started hunger strike in protest at detaining him administratively.

In press remarks on Monday, Resheq called on the world’s parliamentarians and the 20th conference of the Arab inter-Parliamentary union being held in Kuwait to support the cause of the Palestinian lawmakers detained in Israeli jails.

He urged them to take advantage of any international meeting to highlight the issue of the jailed Palestinian lawmakers and demand their immediate release.

MP Yasser Mansour started last Friday an open-ended hunger strike in protest at his detention without any charge or guilt and the repeated extension of his administrative imprisonment without any regard for his poor medical condition.

In a related incident, scores of Palestinian citizens, ex-detainees, lawmakers and national figures participated on Monday morning in a sit-in held in Nablus city in solidarity with the hunger striking MP Yasser Mansour.

The solidarity event was called for by Ahrar center for prisoners’ studies and human rights and took place in Al-Shuhadaa square in downtown Nablus.

Some of the participants held pictures of MP Mansour and banners demanding an end to Israel’s administrative detention policy.