Palestinian MP Jamal Al-Tirawi has called on the Palestinian Authority (PA) security services to “end collective punishment”, Quds Press reported yesterday.
In a statement, Al-Tirawi said: “Everyone wants the law to be implemented and order to be maintained, but the security services have to distance themselves from anything that might harm the [Palestinian people] who are the families of martyrs and prisoners.”
He called on the security services to “stop assaulting and libelling” all the citizens in the Old City of Nablus, where the PA started a security campaign on Thursday night against what it described as a “gang of outlawed people,” but Al-Tirawi called it an “arbitrary campaign against honoured citizens.”
The MP called for the PA to urgently lift the siege on Nablus’s Old City and to “maintain the dignity” of its people, including “honoured fighters.”
Al-Tirawi said he supports maintaining law, “but the illegal thing is arbitrary bloodshed of innocent Palestinians.”
Four people were killed, including two security servicemen, during the PA’s operation in Nablus.