Mashaal: Israel broke promises under Shalit deal
Ma’an – 30/04/2012
GAZA CITY – Hamas politburo chief Khalid Mashaal on Monday said Israel had broken its promises to improve detainees’ conditions under the last swap deal.
Speaking to reporters after meeting the Egyptian foreign minister in Cairo, Mashaal said the October 2011 deal –which was brokered by Egypt — included pledges to end solitary confinement and other restrictions.
Israel had toughened conditions for Palestinian detainees in a bid to pressure Hamas to release soldier Gilad Shalit. He was freed in October in exchange for 1,047 Palestinian prisoners.
Palestinian detainees launched a mass hunger-strike on April 17 to protest their conditions, with prisoner groups estimating that 2,000 people are now refusing food.
After meeting Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi on Sunday, the leaders decided to petition the UN on the issue of Palestinian and Arab prisoners in Israel.
On Monday, Mashaal briefed Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammad Kamel Amr on the situation of Palestinian prisoners.
He thanked Egypt for following up on Palestinian affairs, and stressed the importance of seeing through the Egyptian-brokered reconciliation deal with rival party Fatah.
The national government headed by President Mahmoud Abbas — as agreed between the leaders in Doha in February — must be put into place immediately, he said.
The Hamas chief’s agreement that the Fatah leader should head the government caused uproar in Hamas ranks, sparking a new impasse for the embattled reconciliation deal.
Related articles
- Mishaal discusses prisoners issue with Al Arabi | #PalHunger (occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com)
- Ex-Palestinian prisoner: captivity in Israel, living in graves (alethonews.wordpress.com)
- Netanyahu: Abbas must choose between Hamas and peace (alethonews.wordpress.com)
- Resheq: Hamas launches broad international campaign to support prisoners’ issue | #PalHunger (occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com)
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.
Featured Video
The Motorist Uprising
or go to
Aletho News Archives – Video-Images
Book Excerpt
Why You Should Destroy Your Smart Phone Now
By Simon Elmer | OffGuardian | March 29, 2023
So-called ‘smart phones’ — far more accurately described as ‘dumb phones’ — combine a mobile phone with a watch, with a road map, with a tourist atlas of the world, with a digital camera, with a personal stereo system, with a music collection, with a video recorder, with a diary, with a calculator, with a credit card, with a travelcard, with an office key, with a torch, with a newspaper, with a television, with something to read on the train, and probably a lot more.
I don’t know, because I don’t own one.
‘But it’s so convenient!’ cry those who stare unbelieving at my twenty-year-old Nokia.
To which I reply: ‘Convenience breeds compliance.’ But to what?
Since they were first introduced into our lives in 2008, smartphones have become our outsourced memory and brain, replacing both with the convenience of not having to remember anything or think for ourselves. If you don’t believe me, then answer me this without looking at your smart phone. What is 9 x 13? What was the capital of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia? In what month of which year did the UK invade Iraq at the tail-end of the US-led coalition? Before smart phones, every child in the UK knew the answers to these questions. Now, no adult does.
But they are now even more than this. Smartphones, under the two years of lockdown, were the instrument onto which the COVID-faithful downloaded the software applications (or app) that connected them to the Test and Trace tracking programme that identified and recorded their location, movements, associations and personal contacts. … continue
Blog Roll
Recent Comments
Aletho News- Burying key evidence, new OPCW report covers up Douma’s unsolved deaths March 30, 2023
- The people who brought you the Iraq war loudly support arming Ukraine. Where will this lead? March 30, 2023
- Syria reasserts its right to restore its sovereignty over Israeli-occupied Golan March 30, 2023
- Former CIA officer urges US to make Zelensky drop claims on Crimea and Donbass March 30, 2023
- Why You Should Destroy Your Smart Phone Now March 30, 2023
- The Motorist Uprising March 30, 2023
- Serious harms of the COVID-19 vaccines: a systematic review March 30, 2023
- Ed Dowd’s Grim Accounting March 29, 2023
- Australian senators refuse to investigate the WHO pandemic treaty March 29, 2023
- China Urges US to Stop Interfering in Other Countries’ Affairs Under Pretext of Democracy March 29, 2023
- High Stakes as Uncle Sam’s Days of Impunity Are Finally Over March 29, 2023
- ICC irreversibly crosses the line of legal decency March 29, 2023
- THE ARRESTS MORE OR LESS REAL OF KHAN, TRUMP AND PUTIN: THE PANIC OF THE DEEP STATE March 29, 2023
- Bulgaria refuses to send weapons to Ukraine, joins Hungary and Austria’s neutrality stance March 29, 2023
- Ex-UN Rapporteur Reveals 8 Ways Int’l Nord Stream Probe Can Be Pursued Despite UNSC Stonewalling March 29, 2023
- China wants Nord Stream attackers ‘brought to justice’ March 29, 2023
- IAEA on Kiev’s Remark on Capturing ZNPP by Force: Nuclear Plant Should Not Be Target March 29, 2023
- Serbia and Hungary form Strategic Council despite EU opposition March 29, 2023
- If Americans Knew
- Book Review: “The State of Israel vs The Jews” March 28, 2023
- Netanyahu’s covert operation to manipulate 2016 US election March 25, 2023
- Israeli hacking & disinfo team meddling in elections around the world March 24, 2023
- Brownstone Institute
- Social Isolation Bad For Social Mammals – Who Knew? March 30, 2023
- The Contra Example of India’s Rejection of Indemnity for Pfizer March 29, 2023
- The Most Dangerous International Treaty Ever Proposed March 29, 2023
- The Inherent Deceit of Modern Medicine March 29, 2023
- The mRNA Platform: What It Is, What It Means March 28, 2023
- Sweden Did Exceptionally Well During the COVID-19 Pandemic March 28, 2023
- Richie Allen
- Schools Not Telling Parents When Kids Switch Gender March 30, 2023
- Under Net Zero Plans Households Will Be Penalised For Sticking With Gas March 30, 2023
- 60% Of Scottish Trans Prisoners Began Transitioning After They Were Convicted March 28, 2023
- Change To This Week’s Schedule March 27, 2023
- Not A Lot Of People Know That
- UK Govt’s green subsidy ‘reform’ punishes the poor and benefits the rich March 30, 2023
- Farmer Blenkiron March 30, 2023
- CCC Say England Not Prepared For (Non Existent) Climate Change March 29, 2023
- Antarctic Ice Cap To Grow Despite Global Warming–New Study March 29, 2023
- No Tricks Zone
- Consent Factory
- The Censorship Industrial Complex March 10, 2023
Aletho News 