The Palestinian Authority has announced that it is undergoing threats and pressures to release a detainee accused of selling land for settlers in Jerusalem.
Wafa Palestinian news agency quoted a reliable source from the authority as saying that the Palestinian authority is being pressured to secure the release of a detainee accused of selling land to settlers. The source didn’t reveal the party that posed threats.
However, reliable sources told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that the Israeli authorities threatened to storm the prison where the detainee is kept, given that he has a US-Israeli.
In response to that, Israel escalated against the official Palestinian presence in Eastern Jerusalem and arrested 32 Palestinians in addition to Jerusalem governor Adnan Ghaith, accusing them of being members of the security services of the Authority.
Palestinian and Israeli sources affirmed that arresting the governor and others falls under exerting pressures on the authority to release Israeli national Issam Akel. Ynetnews newspaper said that arresting Akel jeopardized the state’s security, adding that the Israeli procedures against the Palestinian authority aim to push towards his release.
Fatah spokesman Osama al-Qawasmi said that the huge US-Israeli pressures and arresting Fatah leaders in Jerusalem disclose the truth, calling on the people to watch out from lies and fabrications promoted by the occupation.
In its turn, Hamas movement commented on the chain of arrests led by the Occupation forces and described it as a significant index on the aggression conducted by the occupation to serve Judaization in the city.
