Bahar departs for Haj at the head of parliamentary delegation

[ 03/11/2010 – 03:26 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)– A five-member parliamentary delegation led by first deputy speaker of the Palestinian legislative council left Gaza on Wednesday en route to Saudi Arabia to perform Haj (pilgrimage). PLC public relations manager Mumen Bseiso said that the delegates would meet with Arab and Islamic parliamentary and political figures to discuss the challenges facing the Palestinian people and means of supporting the Palestine cause. Meanwhile, sources told the PIC that Hamas leader Dr. Ismail Radwan and spokesmen Sami Abu Zuhri and Fawzi Barhoum had also left Gaza to perform Haj. In the West Bank, Hamas MP Yasser Mansour lashed out at the PA security apparatuses for detaining liberated prisoners Alaa Abu Khader and Firas Jarrar while they were planning to go for Haj. He said that both were included in the Saudi grant to prisoners who spent more than 15 years in Israeli occupation jails. Mansour expressed utter dismay at the situation in the West Bank where the PA security apparatuses had crossed all red lines and dared detain prisoners who spent long years in occupation jails.

Bahar departs for Haj at the head of parliamentary delegation.