Obama’s “new diplomacy”: Egypt’s intelligence blackmails wounded Palestinians to tell about Hamas

[ 23/01/2009 – 04:07 PM ]

CAIRO, (PIC)– Palestinians citizens wounded in the Israeli war on Gaza and treated in Egyptian hospitals affirmed Friday that elements of the Egyptian intelligence questioned them and asked them to reveal information on the whereabouts of Hamas’s arms stores.

The Al-Jazeera net news website on the internet quoted a number of those wounded Palestinians as affirming that elements of the Egyptian security interrogated them in very harsh manner, and asked them to reveal what they know about Hamas’s military force, adding that the security officers threatened to deny them medical treatment if they refused to “cooperate”.

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