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12 May 2009 Hamas said that the visit of Pope
Benedict XVI to Israel especially following the
Israeli massacre of Gaza children, women and elderly
people using mass destruction weapons was beautifying
the image of the Israeli occupation.
Fawzi Barhoum, the Hamas spokesman, on Monday
expressed surprise in a press statement at the Pope's
attempt to market the two-state solution, which
entailed the establishment of a racist, Jewish state.
The Israeli occupation authority's systematic
confiscation of Palestinian lands in Jerusalem and the
West Bank in addition to judaizing the holy city and
targeting Christian and Islamic landmarks reveal the
serious Zionist schemes, which the Pope ignored, the
spokesman elaborated.
He also said that the Pope's sympathy with the
family of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was
out of context, adding that it ignored the suffering
of almost 12,000 Palestinian prisoners in IOA jails,
who are subjected to oppression, torture and
deprivation.
For its part, Islamic Jihad Movement said in a
similar statement that the Pope's visit gave a blind
eye to the Israeli holocaust in Gaza.
Apparently the Pope did not see the IOA attempts to
steal sacred Christian shrines and did not hear the
IOA bulldozers while flattening Christian and Muslim
Jerusalemite homes, the Islamic Jihad elaborated.
Legal Society Outraged At Pope's
Meeting With Shalit's Family
The Wa'ed society for prisoners and ex-prisoners
expressed utmost indignation over Pope Benedict XVI's
meeting with the family of the captured Israeli
soldier Gilad Shalit while ignoring the plight of more
than 11,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli
occupation jails.
The society in a statement on Monday said that the
Pope declared that he would meet the family of Shalit
in a show of solidarity with this family.
However, the Pope did not care about the suffering
of 11,000 Palestinian prisoners including children and
women, it elaborated.
"We express our surprise at such an act, which does
not reflect any ethical values," the society said,
asserting that the issue of Palestinian prisoners
would not be solved through diplomatic channels but
rather through capturing more Israeli soldiers in
light of the "world's disregard of our prisoners'
right to freedom".
Relatives of those prisoners in the Gaza Strip
staged a sit-in on Monday to protest the Pope's
concern with Shalit while ignoring their next of kin
who are held in Israeli occupation jails under harsh
incarceration conditions. |
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