Gaza Government's Internal Security Apparatus Summons Nine Fatah Activists and Members in Jabalia Refugee Camp

13 March 2011

At approximately 9am on Tuesday 8 March 2011, the internal security apparatus in Gaza summoned nine Fatah activists to its office in Jabalia refugee camp.
Four of the summoned persons are from Al Fakhoura neighborhood in Jabalia refugee camp.
Al Mezan has identified their names as follows: ·         Jamal Jamal Sa'eed Obied, 45; ·         Asa'ad Mahmoud Ibrahim Abu Tabanja, 58; ·         Saleh Mohammed Abdullah Qadas, 54; and ·         Mustafa Yousef Abdullah 'Ulwan, 35.
At approximately 2:30pm on the same day, they were released, but were issued with new summonses to present themselves at the security apparatus’s office at 8am on Wednesday 9 March 2011.
At approximately 1pm on the same day, the internal security apparatus summoned another two Fatah activists to its office in Jabalia refugee camp.
Al Mezan has identified their names as follows: ·         Ahmed Sa'eed Ubied, 31; and ·         Ahmed Naji Abdel Aziz Ghanem Naji, 49.
At 5pm on the same day, they were released, but with new summonses to present themselves at the internal security apparatus’s office at 8am on Wednesday 9 March 2011.
The same apparatus also summoned another three Fatah activists from the Al Faluja area to its office in Jabalia refugee camp on Wednesday 9 March 2011.
Al Mezan identified their names as follows:  ·         Usama Abdel Mu'ti Mohammed Sa'ad, 53; ·         Waleed Ahmed Mahmoud Subeih, 41; and ·         Ameed Ahmed Mahmoud Subeih, 36.
            In the morning hours of Wednesday 9 March 2011, the summoned persons presented themselves at the apparatus office.
At approximately 5pm on the same day, they were released, but were issued with new summonses to present themselves at the security apparatus’s office on Thursday 10 March 2011.
On Thursday 10 March 2011, the summoned persons presented themselves at the apparatus office.
At approximately 2pm on the same day, the apparatus released them but after issuing Jamal 'Ubied and Ameed Subeih new summons to present themselves at the security apparatus’s office on Monday 14 March 2011.
  According to Al Mezan's field investigations, the internal security apparatus detained the summoned persons in rooms that should be used as portable toilets, but were used as detention cells.
The internal security apparatus did not give any reason for the summoning.
 Some of the summoned persons were informed that they were summoned because of their social activities.
The six summoned persons had participated in a condolence for the Abu Eida family and held and hung Fatah movement banners.