Former head of the Gaza Staff Bureau and member of the Legal and Administrative Committee Mohammed al-Reqeb on Saturday denied statements attributed to him about a plan to integrate only 30% of the Gaza employees appointed after 2007 into the Palestinian Authority (PA) government.
Reqeb affirmed that the latest meeting of the Legal and Administrative Committee which was formed by the PA government to discuss the fate of the Gaza employees was held in a positive atmosphere.
In an interview with Palestine Online Reqeb stressed that he did not make statements to any media outlet about the meeting.
The Legal and Administrative Committee met in Gaza last week under the chairmanship of the Deputy Prime Minister in the PA government Ziad Abu Amr.
The Committee includes the PA government’s head of the Retirement Authority Majid al-Hilu head of the General Staff Bureau Mousa Abu Zeid and undersecretary of the Ministry of Finance Farid Ghannam as well as the former head of Gaza’s Staff Bureau Mohammed al-Reqeb.
