Ex-prisoners from Nablus province launched cries for help after the Palestinian Authority (PA) chaired by Mahmoud Abbas cut their salaries.
Palestinian ex-prisoner Mohamed al-Sheikh Khalil from Nablus’s Balata refugee camp said the Minister of Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs spoke to him by phone and told him that the PA suspended his salary at the request of the Prime Minister Rami al-Hamdallah.
Al-Sheikh held in Israeli jails for over 11 years added that no offenses or felonies figure in his criminal record.
The ex-prisoner said that the PA’s decision to cut his salary among others’ is arbitrary and makes part of preplanned crackdowns against Palestinian human rights activists.
