Palestinian prisoner Marwan al-Barghouthi member of the Fatah Central Committee has called on president Mahmoud Abbas to uphold the national unity and create the atmosphere to contain everyone in the Palestinian arena as late president Yasser Arafat was doing.
This came in a letter sent from his prison on the 15th anniversary of Arafat’s passing.
Barghouthi said that Abbas must issue a presidential decree to hold elections and abandon his hard-line positions.
He called for necessarily adopting “a national strategic plan to reunite the Palestinian people instead of dispersing them and to take swift steps towards finding solutions to all internal issues in order to reach the stage of national liberation.”
The Fatah official also called on Abbas to revoke the punitive measures he imposed on the Gaza population and to work on strengthening their steadfastness.
