Jawad Ammawi, the ministry’s lawyer, said that the “IPS did not abide by the agreement it reached recently with the representatives of prisoners.”
The two sides reached an agreement after the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in exchange for 1,027 Palestinian prisoners. According to the agreement, the IPS agreed to end the isolation of Palestinian and Arab prisoners and to ease living conditions in 25 Israeli jails and detention camps. The prisoners agreed to end an open hunger strike they started on Sept. 27.
The ministry said at the time that the agreement would end the isolation of jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi, the secretary-general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Ahmad Sa’adat and the Hamas leader Jamal Abu Al-Haija.
Ammawi said that the IPS “did not end the isolation of prisoners.”
He added that the IPS was “still barring Gaza Strip families from visiting their relatives in jails, particularly after the release of Shalit.”
In another development, the Fatah Revolutionary Council has approved the decision of sacking Mohammed Dahlan from the movement, a senior Fatah official said Thursday.
Amin Makboul, secretary-general of Fatah’s Revolutionary Council, said the council “ratified the decision against the former member of the movement’s Central Committee.” Makboul said that the movement’s decision-making body took the decision during its two-day meeting that started on late Wednesday.
In mid June, Fatah decided to fire Dahlan after his differences with President Mahmoud Abbas and to send Dahlan’s case to the Palestinian Public Prosecutor for more investigations over charges of financial corruption and murders.
Tension between Dahlan and Abbas rose late last year after the latter had openly criticized the Palestinian president and his family’s business dealings.
Fatah said that Dahlan has warned that the ailing Abbas was incapable of leading either the Palestinian Authority or Fatah amid pressure from Israel and the United States.
The movement said that Dahlan urged other senior Fatah Central Committee members to undermine Abbas.
Loyalists of Abbas have accused Dahlan of poisoning the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
