On Sunday, the Secretary-General of the Islamic Jihad Movement, Ziyad al-Nakhala, stipulated that his movement attend the meeting of the general secretaries that will be held in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, at the end of this month, on the release of detainees.

Al-Nakhala said in a brief press statement, "We will not go to the meeting of the general secretaries in Cairo before the release of our mujahideen brothers in the prisons of the Palestinian Authority." According to the text of his statement.

The Palestinian Authority denies that it has any political detainees, and says that those it arrests are based on criminal cases, especially after attacking a police station in the town of Jaba, south of Jenin.

Hamas had confirmed that it would participate in the upcoming meeting, as announced by Khalil al-Hayyah, a member of the movement's political bureau, during a national meeting in Gaza.