Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri has accused the leadership of the Fatah Movement of using public money for partisan purposes and as a mean to extort its rivals.
In Twitter remarks on Thursday Abu Zuhri said that “Fatah’s announcement that its members in Gaza would receive good financial tidings soon after punishing them for long months [for political reasons] reflected that it uses the policy of extortion and employs public funds to serve its partisan goals.”
“It is a message to all Arab and international donors that their funds are used to serve a certain group” the spokesman added.
Senior Fatah official Hussein al-Sheikh stated on Wednesday that only Fatah members in Gaza would hear good financial news from Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas during the coming days.
Since April 2017 Abbas has been imposing severe punitive measures against the population in Gaza in order to exert pressure on Hamas. Such inhumane sanctions has affected all aspects of life in the impoverished enclave.
