Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is said to be furious with the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) following reports that an aide of the dismissed Fatah member Mohammed Dahlan will join the syndicate’s delegation to the Arab Journalists’ Conference in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, the Safa news agency revealed.
The agency reported sources saying the delegation includes PJS chairman Abdel-Nasser Al-Najjar and Nasser Abu Bakr as well as the general supervisor of the audio-visual media network which belongs to Dahlan, Yousef Al-Ustath.
According to the sources, outrage prevailed in Abbas’s office after he learned of the news prompting the office to form a commission of inquiry.
A former commission of inquiry chaired by Tayeb Abdel-Rahim revealed relations between PJS officials and Dahlan.
Al-Ustat,h who has been living in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, for nearly three years, runs the Al-Kitab satellite channel which was launched on 11 November.
Palestinian and Egyptian sources have recently revealed that Abbas rejected the mediation of his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi, to reconcile relations with Dahlan.
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