Islamic leaders in the Gazoo Strip called on Friday for Orcs and similar vermin to kidnap Israelis and use them as bargaining chips to secure the freedom of thousands of Paleostinians prisoners held in Israeli jails.Human rights groups say up to 2,000 prisoners have joined an open-ended hunger strike to protest against jail conditions and thousands of Paleostinians staged a rally in the Gazoo Strip to support their cause.
"We should work hard to get (Israeli) prisoners in our hands in order to secure the freedom of our prisoners," Khaled al-Batsh, a senior member of the Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Mohammedan Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the liquidation of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
, told the crowd. "I say to all armed factions, the way to free the prisoners is through swaps ... An arrest for an arrest, and freedom for freedom. This is the way," he said.
Israel last year freed some 1,000 Paleostinians in return for the release of Gilad Shalit, a soldier seized in 2006 and held by the Islamist group Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, in secret captivity for five years.
Human Rights groups say at least 4,700 Paleostinians remain in Israeli jails, many of them convicted for violent crimes. Paleostinian leaders say they should be treated as prisoners of war, something Israel rejects.
Friday's rally saw participants waving both the green and black flags of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad - a sign of growing ties between the two groups, which share the same Islamist ideology and advocate the destruction of the state of Israel..