HAMAS URGES PA TO CUT SECURITY TIES WITH ZIONIST ENTITY

Gaza City, 23 Jumadil  Awwal 1435/24 March 2014 (MINA) – Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has called upon Palestinian Authority (PA) to break off security ties with Israel occupation authority in the wake of an Israeli occupation raid on Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.

“The PA must immediately sever security cooperation with the Israeli occupation. The PA should release all political prisoners and side with our people, heal their wounds and end their suffering,” Hamas said on Saturday.

Earlier in the day, Israeli occupation forces raided a house in the Jenin refugee camp to arrest Hamza Abu Alheja, a member of the Hamas military wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, , Press TV quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA) as reporting, Sunday.

The Israeli occupation troops killed the 20-year-old after he refused to leave the house.

The incident was followed by a clash between Palestinian protesters and Israeli forces where two others were killed and 14 others injured. The two were later identified as Mahmoud Abu Zeina and Yazan Jabarin, both in their early twenties.

Israeli forces have reportedly killed at least 60 Palestinians and injured almost 900 since the resumption of the so-called peace talks between Palestinians and the Israeli regime.

On March 20, Acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas said the US-mediated talks had reached an “impasse” because of Tel Aviv’s “settlement activity.”

US Secretary of State John Kerry brokered the negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians after a three-year gap. Kerry has given the two sides a nine-month deadline to reach a deal.

The Israeli regime is apparently pushing ahead with plans for more than 2,000 new illegal settler units in six settlements in the occupied West Bank. (T/E01/IR)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)