GAZA (PIC)– The ministry of prisoners’ affairs stated Tuesday that ex-PA chief Mahmoud Abbas’s decision to disburse 200 dollars to each prisoner affiliated with the PLO is an indication that the PA lacks seriousness about ending the division and restoring the Palestinian unity.
In a press statement received by the PIC the ministry said that all Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails regardless of their political affiliations are strugglers for freedom and homeland and were imprisoned against the background of resisting the Israeli occupation adding that those who claim to represent all the Palestinian people should not discriminate between prisoners.
The ministry also underlined that the IOA implements a malignant policy against prisoners where it separates Fatah prisoners from their mates affiliated with Hamas in most of Israeli jails in order to entrench division among prisoners but this scheme failed thanks to the awareness of the prisoners.
In the same context Taher Al-Nunu the spokesman for the Palestinian government headed by premier Ismail Haneyya strongly denounced the PA for discriminating between Palestinian prisoners through allocating money to PLO prisoners only warning that this step would consolidate the state of division and lead to the failure of the national dialog.
Nunu underlined that this money belongs to all the Palestinian people and not to a specific faction considering the involvement of prisoners in the political dispute would reflect negatively on their lives and augment their suffering in Israeli jails.
In another context the independent commission for human rights stated that the PA security apparatuses persist in ignoring the decisions of the Palestinian high court of justice which ordered the immediate release of all political prisoners in their jails.
The commission stressed that the continued detention of political prisoners and the reluctance to implement the court’s decisions are considered a violation of the personal freedom guaranteed by articles 11 and 12 of the basic law.
Ibrahim Abrash a former minister of culture in the unconstitutional PA government stated in an interview with the political Bayader magazine that the government of Salam Fayyad does not represent the national project and is not concerned with it.
Abrash noted that this government is associated with the donor countries’ agenda under which the Israeli aggression settlement activities and security coordination escalated.
The ex-PA official revealed that the PA in Ramallah was the first side which overrode and toppled the PLO which was marginalized for the interest of the PA adding that the PLO factions are in harmony with the unconstitutional government of Fayyad and try to appease Israel.
He also said that these parties the PA and the PLO factions do not want to lose any gains they made under the inter-Palestinian division.
