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“Due to al-Arabiya channel's unprofessional policy towards the Palestinian issue, I announce the end of my career as a photojournalist with al-Arabiya Palestine, which is affiliated with al-Arabiya channel. God is our provider and our ultimate source of sustenance,” Mutasim Saqf al-Hayet wrote in a post published on his Twitter page on Saturday evening.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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His resignation comes on the heels of an al-Arabiya report, which wrongfully accused imprisoned Hamas members of beating and torturing former Palestinian detainee Mansour Shehatit over alleged dispute with Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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The Supreme Committee of Hamas Prisoners categorically dismissed the report in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Hamas called upon all concerned parties to prosecute al-Arabiya TV legally, and to criminalize the channel morally for exploiting the sufferings of a former Palestinian prisoner to advance its own agenda.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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“Al-Arabiya and like-minded channels were the first suspicious stations to support normalization [with Israel] than to focus on the role of the Zionist Occupation in the medical neglect of a large number of Palestinian prisoners, including Mansour Shehatit and martyr Aziz Awizat,” the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Israeli officials released Shehatit, a resident of Dura city which lies 11 kilometers southwest of Hebron (al-Khalil) in the southern occupied West Bank, last Thursday after he spent 17 years in the regime’s prisons.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club has held the Tel Aviv regime fully responsible for the situation of the former prisoner.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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It noted that Israeli authorities had isolated Shehatit for more than 10 years, and that officials neglected sick Palestinian prisoners and tortured them through solitary confinement.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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The former prisoner reportedly suffers from psychological and neurological diseases.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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He was apparently subjected to severe torture and solitary confinement for long periods during his detention, which caused him to develop a state of amnesia that prevented him from recognizing his mother, brothers and a large number of his relatives – in a scene that all those who received him cried.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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More than 7,000 Palestinian prisoners are currently held in some 17 Israeli jails, with dozens of them serving multiple life sentences.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Over 350 detainees, including women and minors, are under Israel’s administrative detention.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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The so-called administrative detention, which is a form of imprisonment without trial or charge, allows authorities to incarcerate Palestinians for up to six months. The duration could be extended for an infinite number of times.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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