Le mouvement du Hamas a fermement condamné l'attaque contre le député Mouna Mansour et les manifestants parmi les familles des détenus politiques, considérant que cet acte représente une violation de l'immunité des députés du Parlement palestinien et une atteinte à la liberté d'expression, d'opinion et de manifester pacifiquement, ce qui est le droit du citoyen palestinien.
En commentaire à l'agression de la députée au Conseil législatif palestinien, Mouna Mansour, par les agents des services de sécurité en Cisjordanie, une source haut placée au mouvement a déclaré lundi que "la répression des manifestants parmi les familles des détenus politiques dans les prisons de l'Autorité palestinienne, en les empêchant de prendre la parole, pose de nouveaux obstacles devant l'accord de réconciliation palestinienne et représente un mépris de la part de ces services pour tout ce qui est lié à cet accord".
Le mouvement du Hamas a appelé le président de l'Autorité palestinienne, Mahmoud Abbas, à donner des directives pour faire cesser ces pratiques et la libération immédiate des détenus politiques, et à mettre un terme aux arrestations et aux convocations.
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Hamas: Mansour attack an obstacle to reconcilation
”This act is a violation of the immunity enjoyed by MPs and an attack on freedom of expression and opinion and peaceful protest, which is the right of Palestinians,” Hamas said in its statement released Monday.
A Hamas official said following the incident that it ”places new obstacles before the national reconciliation deal” signed in Cairo in May.
The group has called on Mahmoud Abbas, who heads the co-signing Fatah party which governs the West Bank, to issue directives that would inhibit similar practices and to release Palestinians jailed by West Bank security forces for political reasons.
Ahmed Bahar, deputy speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, of which Mansour is a member, has also issued a statement condemning the attack. In the statement, he holds Abbas responsible for the attack that also targeted the families of the West Bank political prisoners.
He said that ”reconciliation and attacks against representatives and the people don't meet”.
The PLC's Hamas bloc called the move disturbing to the truce made by factions that lead a split Palestine.
“It would have been better if the PA had responded to the demands of the MPs who represent the people in the West Bank and the masses who emerged to demand the release of the political prisoners,” said Hamas's PLC spokesman Mushir al-Masri, “which is the step expected to create an atmosphere for Palestinian reconciliation and not disrupt the atmosphere through these actions”.
Hamas's members on the PLC, many of whom attended the sit-in which took place at Shuhada Square downtown Nablus in the West Bank, confirmed that the “brutal” attack was unjustified.
Elements from the PA security forces cracked down on the sit-in that was staged by the families of the West Bank political prisoners and attacked MP Mansour as well as several journalists, including Mansour's daughter.
The protesters refused to renounce the sit-in until demands to free the prisoners were met.
The event comprised PLC members and former detainees. They shouted slogans demanding the release of the prisoners and condemning the non-implementation of the reconciliation deal made just one month ago.
Witnesses told the PIC that hundreds of security elements appeared to disperse the crowd.
MP Mansour told our correspondent that police and intelligence attacked her after she tried to defend her daughter, journalist Ibtihal Mansour, during a police attack, as she was covering the event.
She said the attack happened in plain view of human rights groups that were present at the sit-in. They said the intelligence force also arrested photojournalist Ahmed al-Khateeb after the gathering was broken up.
The committee of families of political prisoners in the West Bank declared in a statement it released on Sunday that 53 arrests and 120 summonses took place after the signing of the reconciliation deal. Also according to its figures, some 70 detainees were tried before military and civil courts in that time.