GAZA (PIC)– First deputy speaker Ahmed Bahar strongly denounced the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority (PA) for aborting a visit to the Gaza Strip planned by heads of Islamic parliaments stressing that such behavior is considered a big political and national wrong and participation in Israel’s blockade on the Strip.
Bahar stated in a press release on Monday that the Fatah’s parliamentary bloc and its head Azzam Al-Ahmed were the parties which frustrated the visit through their coordination with Cairo noting that the delegation was planning to meet with all parliamentary blocs and check on the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
The deputy speaker said that such an act is immoral and only serves the Israeli occupation’s interests noting that this was not the first time Fatah faction did something like that where it thwarted many Arab and European parliamentary visits.
Official Syrian sources revealed that Fatah and its parliamentary bloc asked Egypt to prevent this visit at the pretext that the time was not appropriate.
The speakers of Syria Turkey Iran Algeria Pakistan Indonesia Uganda Sudan and Yemen were supposed to make a solidarity visit Tuesday to Gaza.
In another context senior Hamas official Ismail Radwan said that Fatah faction gives its negotiation and liquidation agenda precedence over the national reconciliation and insists on escalating its campaigns against Hamas cadres and supporters in the West Bank.
Radwan stressed that Fatah follows the American policy that rejects the results of democracy and refuses to respond with all national efforts made to stop the arrest campaigns against Hamas supporters.
In a related incident Mahmoud Abbas’s security militias stormed Monday evening a residential building in Al-Ma’ajin area west of Nablus and kidnapped two professors working for Al-Najah university. Local sources said the militias took them to the intelligence headquarters in the city.
