Hamas condemns cancellation of allowances to families of martyrs, prisoners
Hamas has condemned a decree issued by the Palestinian Authority (PA) to cut government payments to families of martyrs and prisoners.
The PA, which is dominated by the Fatah party, exercises limited powers in parts of the occupied West Bank.
On Monday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas issued a decree canceling the allowances paid to the families of prisoners, martyrs, and the wounded as part of the prisoners’ law and the regulations issued by the Council of Ministers and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
The beneficiaries of the PA allowances have included families in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip and Palestinians living in Lebanon, Syria and elsewhere — as well as those considered for release under the phased Gaza war ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.
Hamas condemned Abbas’ decision to cut financial aid to families of prisoners, martyrs and the wounded.
“We in the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) condemn the decision of President Mahmoud Abbas to cancel the payment of financial allocations to the families of prisoners, martyrs and wounded," Hamas said in a statement.
Abbas’ decision to cut financial aid to people and resistance forces who sacrificed for the Palestinian cause is “unpatriotic and departs from one of the national constants,” Hamas added.
Hamas insisted that their sacrifices needed to be appreciated, calling for the immediate reinstatement of the allowances.
“We need to appreciate the sacrifices of the prisoners and wounded and martyrs’ families and the price they paid in the form of their lives and years in the occupation’s prisons. We must protect their families instead of abandoning them at this fateful moment in the history of our Palestinian cause,” it said.
“We call for an immediate reversal of it, and not to submit to the pressures of the Zionist occupation and the American administration,” it added.
Prior to this, Abbas had condemned the Israeli regime’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.
He described the Israeli aggression and constant bombardment of Gaza as a "barbaric war" and "genocide".
“We are facing together a barbaric war of aggression and an open war of genocide against our people in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank,” Abbas stated in a speech in Ramallah.
He described Israeli regime forces' brutal slaughter of Palestinians as "a war against the existence of the Palestinians, against the Palestinian national identity, the identity of the land and the identity of its inhabitants.”
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