Electing leadership body for Hamas prisoners in Israeli jails

Ahrar Centre for Prisoners’ Studies and Human Rights said that the internal election of Hamas in the occupation’s prisons has been completed, and resulted in forming a supreme leadership body to be responsible for managing the movement’s affairs inside the occupation prisoners.

The centre said, captive Mohammed Arman was elected as head of the supreme leadership body. Arman is from the town of Kharabtha Bani Harith west of Ramallah and he is one of the young leaders in Israeli jails, as he is 42-year-old, and has been detained since 18 August 2002 and sentenced to 36 years in jail.

As to the rest of the council’s members (15 members) who were elected, the centre said they included prisoners Abdel Nasser Issa, Moaz Said Bilal, Mohammed Subha, Selim Heggah, Bilal Barghouti, Mustafa Al-Astal, Ahmed Al-Kadri, Salim Al-Gaaba,  Marwan Al-Mohtaseb, Ashraf Al-Saghir, Jacob Abu Asab, Gamal El-Tawil, Muammar Shahrouri, and Islam Garrar.