Women's rallies request release of detained Hamas members

Women and children demonstrated in the city of Nablus on Monday and requested the release of detained members of Hamas who are jailed in Palestinian prisons.

Palestinian sources in Nablus said that 250 women preceded by 50 children participated in the rally and repeated slogans. A group of children tied their hands with chains to protest the continuation of their fathers' detention.

The families of the detained members of Hamas distributed a statement in which they called on the Palestinian government to release all the detained members of Hamas on the occasion of the Month of Ramadan.

The Palestinian government detained members and supporters of Hamas in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip after two suicide attacks in West Jerusalem last July and September which killed 21 Israelis.