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| By: Israel Insider staff and partners |
| Published: November 30, 2005 |
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Palestinians led by their top Muslim cleric appealed to Iraqi insurgents Wednesday to release four Western peace activists, saying three of them had spent time in the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) aiding the Palestinians.
The four workers for the group Christian Peacemaking Teams - an American, a Briton and two Canadians - were shown in a video released Tuesday by insurgents in Iraq.
"We demand that these aid workers be released immediately," said Mufti Ikrema Sabri, the Palestinians' top Muslim clergyman. "We tell them that these aid workers have stood beside Palestinian people and it's our duty now to stand beside them."
Sabri said Islam opposes taking civilians hostage and said such kidnappings are "inhumane."
Palestinians in several towns said they had worked with the three activists and asked Sabri to issue the appeal. Hundreds of international activists have aided the Palestinians in demonstrations.
"We knew them as people who were against occupation and supported freedom for occupied peoples, like the Palestinian and Iraqi peoples." said the mayor of the West Bank village of Jayyus, Shawkat Samha.
Samha said he had met Fox and recognized him in the video that was shown on the Arab satellite channel Al-Jazeera.
The AP contributed to this report
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