The Hamas Movement has accused Palestinian premier Rami al-Hamdallah of being involved in the blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip after he admitted that his government’s sanctions against Gaza were temporary.
In a statement Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said that Hamdallah created the harsh and tragic conditions which the population in Gaza suffer from and thus he and his government could not be entrusted with the lives of the Palestinian people and their rights.
Hamdallah claimed on Saturday that his government’s measures which targeted 35000 employees in Gaza were temporary adding that the rights of those employees would not go away.
A few months ago the government decided at the behest of Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas to impose several sanctions on Gaza.
PA officials claimed at time that those moves were meant to increase pressure on Hamas to relinquish control of Gaza.
Those punitive measures included shrinking salaries for thousands of civil servants depriving patients of receiving treatment abroad reducing the power supply and cutting off medical supplies.
