The Hamas Movement has reiterated its condemnation of the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) compliance with the Israeli-US request to cut off monthly payments to prisoners and families of martyrs.
In Facebook remarks Hamas spokesman Hazem Qasem said that “PA chief Mahmoud Abbas’s submission to the Israeli-US demands calling to discontinue paying salaries to prisoners and families of martyrs means that he is persistent in liquidating all components of the Palestinian cause and destroying the foundations of the national work.”
Qasem accused the PA leaders of going too far in making concessions at the expense of the Palestinian cause in order to ensure continuity of the privileges provided for them by Washington and Tel Aviv.
Addressing the Senate on Tuesday US secretary of state Rex Tillerson said that Abbas would stop the policy of providing the Palestinian families of those who attacked or killed Israelis as well as the prisoners in Israeli jails with monthly financial support.
This came after Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing government pressed recently the Trump administration to cut off aid to the PA unless such payments stop.
