The Palestinian Central Electoral Commission has rejected the candidate of a senior Hamas terrorist serving 46 consecutive life sentences and another 30 years in Israeli prison for directing three mass casualties in Israel.
The commission has ruled that Hassan Salameh, a former commander of Hamas’ military wing, Izaddin al-Qassam, will not be able to run in the upcoming parliamentary elections.
The commission defends its decision, arguing that it is an executive body that has entrusted the implementation of the election law.
The CEC pointed out that it had accepted the candidacy of many Palestinian prisoners who met the conditions of the commission, including registration. The commission said it had approved the candidacy of ten more prisoners whose names appear on the Hamas list.
He was number 13 on the Hamas menu recently submitted to the CEC. The list is called ‘Jerusalem is our destiny’.
On Monday, a Palestinian electoral court rejected an appeal by Hamas against the decision to remove Salameh from the electoral roll.
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In response, Hamas expressed “great regret” over the decision to reject Salameh’s candidacy, pointing out that he had been arrested by the IDF years ago.
“We have explained all the circumstances to the Central Electoral Commission and made extensive contacts with its leaders to remove the danger of removing the name of a Palestinian prisoner who made the greatest sacrifices,” Hamas said in a statement. . “Today, however, we were surprised by the court’s decision to dismiss the appeal against the deletion of our list.”
According to Hamas, it is the duty of the Central Electoral Commission to take the necessary decisions and mechanisms that protect the political rights of all Palestinian prisoners. ‘
Senior Hamas official Ahmed Bahr condemned the decision to reject Salameh’s candidacy, calling it a “betrayal of the sacrifices of our heroic prisoners.”
Bahr said Hamas hoped the CEC would “respect the sacrifices of our heroic prisoners and take their special circumstances into account.”
He returned to the Gaza Strip in 1993 shortly after the signing of the Oslo Accords between Israel and the PLO and was involved in several shooting attacks on IDF soldiers and Israeli settlers.
After the assassination of Hamas arch-terrorist and main bomb maker Yahya Ayyash in January 1996, Hamas gave Salameh the task of carrying out a series of terrorist attacks against Israel.
Salameh moves to the West Bank, where he plans a series of suicide attacks in Jerusalem and Ashkelon in which 46 people were killed and 91 wounded.