Fatah MPs in Gaza condemn PA action against West Bank colleagues

Fatah MPs in the Gaza Strip said on Monday that the Palestinian Authority action against their party colleagues in the occupied West Bank reflects the degree of its aggression, Al-Resalah has reported. The newspaper pointed out that the PA raided the office of the Red Cross in Ramallah where West Bank MPs were holding a protest sit-in.

Naeema Sheikh-Ali MP is the spokesperson of Fatah MPs in Gaza. She told a press conference in front of the Red Cross office in Gaza that PA President Mahmoud Abbas and the security services are responsible for the aggression against Fatah MPs in the occupied West Bank. “This aggression contradicts all the national and international criteria of human rights,” she said. “It cannot be justified.” The PA’s actions prove clearly that human rights values have already collapsed in the West Bank, she added.

Denouncing the “silence” of the Red Cross over this “sinful violation”, Sheikh-Ali called for the organisation to put pressure on the PA to respect its offices and end its violations of human rights.

The MP explained that five of her Fatah colleagues in the West Bank were protesting against Abbas’s decision to revoke their parliamentarian immunity when PA security services broke in and ended the sit-in. “They have been prevented from entering the parliament’s offices in Ramallah following the president’s decision.”

She called on Abbas to abide to the Palestinian Basic Law, rescind his decision and stop such violations by the executive.