The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement has insisted that the unity government will not work properly until and unless the issue of employees’ pay and status has been resolved, Quds Press reports. Hamas is demanding that the Prime Minister of the national consensus government, Rami Hamdallah should take his responsibilities seriously and resolve the matter of unpaid salaries and the integration of staff employed while the movement was the de facto elected government in the Gaza Strip.
In a written statement, Hamas media spokesman Taher Al-Nunu said that the prime minister must show that he stands up equally for all of the Palestinian people. “The work of the consensus government will not be efficient unless the staff issue is resolved radically and definitively,” he said.
On Monday, a delegation of ministers from the government in Ramallah cut short their visit to the Gaza Strip. Although they were supposed to be in the besieged territory for 10 days to work on the staff issue, the ministers left after just 24 hours.
Since it came to power in early June last year, the national consensus government has neither paid the wages of former Gaza government employees, nor integrated them into the Palestinian Authority based in the occupied West Bank.
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