The Israeli administration of Beersheba prison isolated noted Hamas figure Sheikh Jamal Abul Heija after he delivered the Friday Khutba (sermon) and talked about Hamas and the victory it had made in the last war.
His family said that Sheikh Abul Heija talked in his Khutba about the visit of Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal to Gaza and described it as part of the victory achieved by the resistance in Gaza.
The family added that the Israeli jailers in the prison summoned Abul Heija after he finished his Khutba and censured him before taking him to solitary confinement.
The prison mates of Sheikh Abul Heija protested his isolation and refused to take lunch and dinner meals. They also threatened the prison administration that they would go on hunger strike if it did not get him back to his section with other prisoners.
Sheikh Jamal Abul Heija suffers from several health problems without receiving proper medical care and his right hand was amputated after he had sustained injuries during a raid by Israeli troops on Jenin refugee camp in 2002.
