GAZA (PIC)– The caretaker government strongly denounced the PLO factions’ call for a general strike in the Gaza Strip confirming that this call is part of a scheme aiming to restore chaos to the Strip and to incite Palestinian citizens to riot for the mere sake of narrow partisan and political goals flouting the higher interests and stability of the Palestinian people.
In a statement received by the PIC Taher Annono the government’s spokesman warned of the negative repercussions of responding to this strike on all aspects of Palestinian life and the governmental sectors especially the educational one highlighting that the government is following closely the persistent attempts to restore chaos and insecurity to the Palestinian arena in the Gaza Strip.
Annono also stated that the position of the PLO factions which called for a strike made them part of the problem and lose any neutral stance in the current crisis considering their threats of cutting salaries of civil servants and removing them from the national circle if they do not participate in the strike as “blackmail”.
For its part the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command (PFLP-GC) questioned the credibility and earnestness of the PLO factions’ statements which call for dialogue saying: “The keenness on national unity and success of any initiative to restore dialogue to the Palestinian arena can never be through calls for demonstrations and strikes serving a Palestinian party against another.”
In a statement issued on Saturday and received by the PIC the PFLP general command underlined that there are sides taking advantage of certain events and internal problems to pour oil on the fire ignoring the fact that the dispute in the Palestinian arena is based on the disparity and contradiction between the resistance project and the will of Palestinian people on one side and the Zio-American project and its tools to liquidate Palestinian cause on the other side.
For his part Ala’edeen Al-Battah the head of the civil servant syndicate stated on Saturday that the PLO factions turned into spokespersons for Fatah faction and try to establish what Fatah desires underscoring that the call for a strike is unwarranted and incorrect and does not serve the civil servants or even the public interest.
Al-Battah also confirmed that a broad segment of the Palestinian people reject such incitement and practices and will report to their duties as usual.
