[ 18/04/2011 - 02:13 PM ] "Only the Palestinians were active in the issue of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and they commemorate it on the seventeenth of April every year by marking the prisoner day, but when the Palestinian resistance was able to kidnap Shalit, international parties started to deal with this issue and many countries reacted with it after hearing about Shalit and knowing why he was captured," spokesman for the committees Abu Mujahed told Quds Press on Sunday.
Spokesman Abu Mujahed added that the capture of Gilad Shalit exposed the hypocrisy of the international community which moved when one Israeli soldier was taken into custody and ignored more than 7, 000 Palestinian prisoners being humiliated and maltreated in Israeli jails.
The spokesman urged the family of Shalit to pressure the Israeli government to respond to the Palestinian resistance's demands in order to conclude a prisoner swap deal leading to the release of their son.
He also warned the Israeli government of playing with fire or making any follies in order to release Shalit.
In a related context, media practitioners and specialists in prisoners' affairs called on Sunday for necessarily activating the issue of Palestinian prisoners locally and internationally.
This came during a symposium organized by the press and media department at the Islamic university.
The symposium addressed the press and media coverage of prisoners' affairs and the participants highlighted the role of the local and international media outlets in activating this issue.
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