Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas on Tuesday said that the Palestinian Authority (PA) government’s call for the return of all its workers in Gaza to their former jobs violates the 2011 Cairo agreement.
Hamas’s spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said in a statement that the government’s decision is contrary to a pre-existing agreement that the return of the employees hired before 14th June 2007 should be implemented in accordance with a mechanism set by the Administrative and Legal Committee.
The Palestinian Council of Ministers in its regular meeting in Ramallah on Tuesday asked old PA staff in Gaza to return to work and instructed the PA ministers to arrange for the transition.
The 2011 agreement signed between the Palestinian factions in Cairo provides for returning all civil employees who were hired before 14th June 2007 in both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip including those absent or dismissed due to the division with their full rights guaranteed and cancelling all dismissal orders.
The agreement underlines that this step shall be made based on a mechanism developed by the Administrative and Legal Committee which will be formed by consensus with no amendments or new appointments made until the Committee’s work is completed.
