Fatah official calls for escalation of 'popular struggle'

Azzam al-Ahmad, a member of Fatah's Central Committee and head of the group’s parliamentary bloc, on Sunday called for an escalation of “the popular struggle” in support of Palestinian Arab terrorists in Israeli prisons.

Ahmad said that no peace agreement can be signed with Israel unless all the Palestinian Arab prisoners are released, stressing that the issue of the prisoners has dominated the national priorities of Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas.