Palestinian Priest: Oust PA and Start Civil DisobedienceNot even journalists abroad are safe; the Palestinian General Intelligence service reportedly provided the Palestinian Foreign Ministry a list of all the opponents of Mahmoud Abbas living abroad so that he could use his loyalists to silence them. The suppression of criticism also extends to social media, which is monitored by the PA security services to track people “inciting against Palestinian institutions.”
Why Don’t Supporters of Palestinians Care About PA Abuses?
Senior Christian Priest in Ramallah Monsignor Manuel Musallam severely criticized the Palestinian Authority (PA)’s security cooperation with Israel which has led to the death of tens of Palestinian resistance fighters in West Bank, Al-Resalah newspaper reported.
In a recent interview with the paper, Musallam called on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank to oust the PA and start civil disobedience against it and the Israeli occupation.
“Oust the PA, its security cooperation and the Oslo Accords which brought it,” he said.
Anger against the PA Growing: PFLP Suspends Participation in Elections
The Popular Front for The Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) announced on Monday that it was suspending its participation in local Palestinian elections scheduled for May, in protest of Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces’ violent repression of demonstrations in the occupied West Bank a day earlier.
Jarrar said that the PFLP would only reconsider the possibility of engaging in the electoral process if all PA officers involved in assaulting protesters were held accountable.
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