Hamas spokesman Abdul-Latif Qanu’a has described UN envoy Jason Greenblatt’s call for pressuring his Movement to release Israeli captive soldiers in Gaza as “blatant bias in favor of the Israeli occupation state.”

Spokesman Qanu’a said that Greenblatt ignored the suffering of thousands of Palestinian prisoners who have the right under international law to resist the occupation and receive humane treatment in Israeli jails.

Greenblatt this week addressed a letter to the UN, urging the international body to work on having the Israelis held in Gaza released, according to the Israeli media.

According to Israel’s Channel 12 News, Greenblatt, president Donald Trump's top Mideast negotiator, wrote the letter on the heels of a meeting with Leah and Simcha Goldin, the parents of Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin, one of the captive soldiers in Gaza.

 

Source: The Palestinian Information Center