GAZA, March 1 (Xinhuanet) -- Israeli army extended administrative detention for the spokesman of Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the West Bank city of Jenin for four months, Palestinian sources said on Tuesday.

    Israel had renewed the sentence of administrative arresting for Sheikh Khaled al-Hajj for the seventh time consecutively, said the sources.

    The Hamas movement condemned the step and asserted that the Israeli policy against the movement didn't stop, said the leaflet, adding Israel always renews the administrative arrest for the movement's leaders and members.

    The leaflet confirmed that Israel had extended the administrative detention for al-Hajj for the seventh time and claimed al-Hajj has to stay in jail as he is a senior leader in the
West Bank.

    Israel had also transferred another leading figure in the movement, Wasfi Kabha, to administrative detention for six months after he ended his sentence of three years.

    Hamas urged human rights institutions as to move and stop the Israeli policy against the movement and to force Israel to end these practices that contradict with the human rights and all the humanistic compacts.

    The movement considered that the Israeli step is a clear violation to the calmness. "Israel insists to continue the attacks against the Palestinians and Hamas members," the leaflet added.