Josep Borrell: The Shomron Regional Council asks you to release six detainees by the Palestinian authorities

The Samaria Regional Council, known in Hebrew as the Shomron Regional Council, has asked Josep Borrell, the EU’s High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, to condemn the arrest by the Palestinian authorities of six people who expressed ” his support for the extension of Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria. This has been expressed through a letter signed by the leaders of this Israeli regional council and in which they also request the release of those arrested. The detainees gave an interview last June to the Israeli journalist Tzvi Yehezkeli. In that interview their desire to “become Israeli citizens” and charged Mahmoud Abbas, President of Palestine, for his “corrupt nepotism.” “All this was broadcast on Israel’s Channel 13 last June,” says the Shomron Regional Council in the letter sent to Borrell. This letter is signed by Yossi Dagan, its president, and Sheikh Abukhalil Al-Tamimi, a Palestinian cleric that he is in favor of the Palestine living under the democracy of Israel as citizens equal to the Hebrews. The Samaria Regional Council or Shomron Regional Council is an Israeli regional council that has jurisdiction in the Palestinian area of Judea and the Israeli area of Judea. Its objective is to provide municipal services to the localities that are within this jurisdiction. “Unfortunately, we are witnessing again and again the reality that exists under the authoritarian regime of terror and internal and external fear of Mahmoud Abbas, where people They cannot say what they think openly and freely, and when they do, they are persecuted, imprisoned and tortured.This type of action is committed daily under the Abbas regime, “the leaders of this association emphasize. The six detained by the Palestinian authorities expressed” the true thoughts of the residents living in Judea and Samaria. “We have close relationships with many of them and we work together to achieve and maintain peaceful coexistence. Actions such as those taken by the Palestinian Authority are counterproductive and aim to damage all attempts at peaceful coexistence “, they add in the letter.” Their sin was to speak their mind. “The Shomron Regional Council shows rejection of these practices and compares them with those carried out in authoritarian countries such as North Korea or Iran. They also attack Josep Borrell and the EU authorities for condemning “immediately and repeatedly the statements and actions of the sovereign democratic government of Israel without just cause” and not those carried out by the Palestinian authorities. “These inhumane, uncivilized actions and barbaric carried out by the authoritarian regime headed by Mahmoud Abbas, which are considered a frank violation of basic human rights by any civilized international standard, remain unchallenged. Is there a more hypocritical double standard approach than that? “They ask themselves from this Israeli regional council. The reason for this letter to Josep Borrell as high representative of the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy is clear:” We demand that they act with speed and determination for the release of those arrested, whose only ‘sin’ was to speak their minds freely and sincerely, and begin to confront the crimes committed by Abbas and his gang.