Hamas demands Saudi Arabia to release Palestinian detainees

SANAA, Jun. 08 (YPA) – The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement “Hamas” renewed on Tuesday its call to the Saudi authorities to release Palestinian detainees in the Kingdom’s prisons.

This came in a news statement by the leader in movement, Raafat Murra, coinciding with the holding of a trial session for Palestinian detainees in Saudi Arabia, including, 80 year-old Mohammed al-Khudari, who suffers from several diseases and the representative of Hamas in the Kingdom.

Murra considered that “the continued detention of al-Khudari, with his brothers, is a great injustice and an insult to the Palestinian people and their just cause, in additional to the Palestinian-Saudi relationship.”

The Hamas leader called on the kingdom’s leadership to take a “bold and responsible decision to shut this page and immediately end this trial and return the detainees to their families, especially since there is no violation committed by the detainees.”

On September 9, 2019, Hamas announced Saudi Arabia arrested the leader in the movement, “Mohammed Al-Khudari” and his son, saying that he had been responsible for managing the relationship with the Kingdom for two decades.

Since the beginning of the discussion on the issue of Palestinian and Jordanian detainees in Saudi Arabia, Riyadh has not issued any comment yet.

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