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Demonstrations In Gaza In Solidarity With Detained Palestinians
Report
By Yasser Al Banna, IOL Gaza Correspondent
GAZA
STRIP, July 6 (IslamOnline) – The Supreme Committee for the
Following-up of National and Islamic forces in Gaza organized Saturday
a solidarity demonstration with the Palestinian prisoners of war
detained in the occupation forces prisons.
The
demonstration started in front of the Palestinian Legislative Council
in Gaza and headed towards the base of the United Nations in Gaza
where a memo was handed to the UN representative asking the
international body to fulfill its duty towards the Palestinian people
and to protect them from the crimes of occupation, brutality and to
force the Israeli government to free the prisoners.
The
demonstration raised Palestinian flags and pictures of the detained
vice president of the Popular Front of the Liberation of Palestine
Abduraheem Mulaweh and Marwan Al Barghouthi, the secretary general of
the Fatah movement in the West Bank. They repeated slogans asking that
the Israeli aggression end and asking the international community and
human rights organizations to play its role in pressurizing the
Israeli government to free the prisoners.
The
committee set up a camp in front of the UN base to continue for
three days in which tens of residents will be staying and where the
pictures of the prisoners are hung and hundreds of banners asking the
UN to move to stop the Israeli aggression.
Kayed
Al Ghoul, member of the PFLP told IslamOnline that the tent was set up
in solidarity with Mulaweh and Barghouthi and the rest of the
detainees. He said it was also to stress the unity of the Palestinian
people who are defending their detained brothers and determined to set
them free.
Al
Ghoul said: “We are directing a message to the whole world that our
people are determined to resist despite the detaining schemes of the
occupation forces. During this demonstration, we have directed a
letter to the United Nations Secretary General demanding that he does
his job to free Saadat, Mulaweh and Al Barghouthi and show our
discontent with the American stance which is completely biased towards
the occupation and its crimes.”
He
added that if the UN does not play its role it would be a shortcoming
from its side. Al Ghoul said that the detention of Mulaweh is serious
because he is a member of the PFLP’s executive committee.
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