6 dec 2015
Member of Hamas political bureau Fatehi Hammad called on Fatah Movement to stop negotiations and co-ordination with Israeli authorities and to cancel Oslo accords.
During “We will Redeem Al-Aqsa with our Souls” rally, Hammad pointed out that Palestinian women took to Gaza’s streets in support of resistance option.
The leader in Hamas hailed the ongoing Palestinian uprising, saying that the Jerusalem Intifada will continue till achieving its goals.
Gaza is ready more than any time to unite with the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem, he stressed.
Gaza women, Hammad continued, have prepared themselves for the liberation battle of Palestine.
"We will not abandon any inch of Palestinian land and we will never give up on any of our rights," he vowed.
Hammad concluded by calling on PA security forces to get rid of Oslo accords’ impacts and restrictions.
During “We will Redeem Al-Aqsa with our Souls” rally, Hammad pointed out that Palestinian women took to Gaza’s streets in support of resistance option.
The leader in Hamas hailed the ongoing Palestinian uprising, saying that the Jerusalem Intifada will continue till achieving its goals.
Gaza is ready more than any time to unite with the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem, he stressed.
Gaza women, Hammad continued, have prepared themselves for the liberation battle of Palestine.
"We will not abandon any inch of Palestinian land and we will never give up on any of our rights," he vowed.
Hammad concluded by calling on PA security forces to get rid of Oslo accords’ impacts and restrictions.
1 nov 2015
The Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman, Mahmoud Abbas, said that he neither intends to abandon the Oslo Accord nor insist on the absorption of millions of Palestinians into the occupied territories.
“We never said we were going to cancel the Oslo Accord,” Abbas said during a meeting near The Hague with members of Dutch pro-Israel advocacy organs.
“We are not going to cancel, we will not cancel anything,” he added, as long as “Israel respects its obligations.”
On Sept. 30, at UN headquarters in New York, Abbas said: “We cannot continue to be bound by these signed agreements with Israel because “the status quo cannot continue.”
At the meeting, Abbas also claimed that he and the Palestinian Authority “never asked anyone to boycott Israel,” only products produced in the settlements.
Asked about the right of return of several million Palestinians to the occupied territories, he said: “I am not asking for a right of return for six million Palestinians; I want a solution for them.”
CIDI Director Hanna Luden told Abbas of “serious concern about incitement, including by yourself, in saying that Israel wants to build a third temple” on the holy al-Aqsa Mosque.
Abbas answered that he was willing to address incitement “both by Israel and by Palestinians” under U.S. brokerage, but that Israel was unwilling to.
Abbas also said that Israel and Hamas were conducting direct negotiations in Europe, in a country which he refused to name.
“We never said we were going to cancel the Oslo Accord,” Abbas said during a meeting near The Hague with members of Dutch pro-Israel advocacy organs.
“We are not going to cancel, we will not cancel anything,” he added, as long as “Israel respects its obligations.”
On Sept. 30, at UN headquarters in New York, Abbas said: “We cannot continue to be bound by these signed agreements with Israel because “the status quo cannot continue.”
At the meeting, Abbas also claimed that he and the Palestinian Authority “never asked anyone to boycott Israel,” only products produced in the settlements.
Asked about the right of return of several million Palestinians to the occupied territories, he said: “I am not asking for a right of return for six million Palestinians; I want a solution for them.”
CIDI Director Hanna Luden told Abbas of “serious concern about incitement, including by yourself, in saying that Israel wants to build a third temple” on the holy al-Aqsa Mosque.
Abbas answered that he was willing to address incitement “both by Israel and by Palestinians” under U.S. brokerage, but that Israel was unwilling to.
Abbas also said that Israel and Hamas were conducting direct negotiations in Europe, in a country which he refused to name.
6 oct 2015
Israeli settlement map (archive image)
Thousands of Israelis, including legislators and , gathered Monday in front of the home of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, calling for increased theft of Palestinian land for the expansion of Israeli colonies.
The settlers who organized the rally set up a tent and stage outside of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s home, and a sound system blasted the words of the speakers along with bands playing music supportive of the settlers’ expansion campaign.
Yossi Dagan, the head of a right-wing settler group, called on the Prime Minister to establish more colonies in the northern part of the West Bank near Nablus, which is an area that is supposed to be under complete Palestinian control under the Oslo Accords of 1993, but has been increasingly violated by Israeli expansion in recent years.
“In light of recent terrorist attacks”, one of the speakers shouted, the Israeli government should forcibly take over more Palestinian land. No one at the rally addressed the fact that this expansion is likely to anger Palestinians whose land is taken, and further exacerbate the tension that has already reached a breaking point after decades of unabated Israeli encroachment onto Palestinian land.
The protesters were addressed by two Israeli Cabinet ministers, Social Affairs Minister Haim Katz and Minister of Tourism Yariv Levin. Levin stated, “We're here to strengthen the government to do the things we all believe in”, adding that he hopes to pressure the Prime Minister to increase the expansion of colonies in order "to beat terrorism in [the] most Jewish way possible."
Katz said, “we must start building kindergartens and schools, expand existing settlements and build new ones.” The expansion he calls for is in direct violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, to which Israel is a signatory, which prohibits the transfer of civilian populations into land captured and occupied by an invading military.
The Israeli military has illegally occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank since 1967. In that time, particularly since the Oslo Agreement was signed in 1993, Israeli military bases and settlement colonies have significantly expanded, with hundreds of thousands of civilians building houses and developments on illegally seized Palestinian land.
Thousands of Israelis, including legislators and , gathered Monday in front of the home of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, calling for increased theft of Palestinian land for the expansion of Israeli colonies.
The settlers who organized the rally set up a tent and stage outside of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s home, and a sound system blasted the words of the speakers along with bands playing music supportive of the settlers’ expansion campaign.
Yossi Dagan, the head of a right-wing settler group, called on the Prime Minister to establish more colonies in the northern part of the West Bank near Nablus, which is an area that is supposed to be under complete Palestinian control under the Oslo Accords of 1993, but has been increasingly violated by Israeli expansion in recent years.
“In light of recent terrorist attacks”, one of the speakers shouted, the Israeli government should forcibly take over more Palestinian land. No one at the rally addressed the fact that this expansion is likely to anger Palestinians whose land is taken, and further exacerbate the tension that has already reached a breaking point after decades of unabated Israeli encroachment onto Palestinian land.
The protesters were addressed by two Israeli Cabinet ministers, Social Affairs Minister Haim Katz and Minister of Tourism Yariv Levin. Levin stated, “We're here to strengthen the government to do the things we all believe in”, adding that he hopes to pressure the Prime Minister to increase the expansion of colonies in order "to beat terrorism in [the] most Jewish way possible."
Katz said, “we must start building kindergartens and schools, expand existing settlements and build new ones.” The expansion he calls for is in direct violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, to which Israel is a signatory, which prohibits the transfer of civilian populations into land captured and occupied by an invading military.
The Israeli military has illegally occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank since 1967. In that time, particularly since the Oslo Agreement was signed in 1993, Israeli military bases and settlement colonies have significantly expanded, with hundreds of thousands of civilians building houses and developments on illegally seized Palestinian land.
4 oct 2015
By Khalid Amayreh in occupied Palestine
It is amply clear by now that the Palestinian Authority (PA), which gravels at Israel's feet in what looks like a master-slave relationship, has become a real obstacle to the realization of Palestinian freedom from the clutches of Israeli occupation and domination.
PA leaders have repeatedly argued that the net outcome of the Oslo Process, signed between an insolent Israel and a vanquished PLO, has been a fat zero.
But the overall picture has been much bleaker.
PA-PLO officials, ever since the conclusion of the hapless accords, never really stopped deceiving and cheating the Palestinian people by promising them that a viable Palestinian state was looming just behind the horizon and that it was only a matter of a few years before our thoroughly tortured people would have their own independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.
Now, 22 years later, not only the promised state doesn't exist, but the prospects for its existence have become dimmer and dimmer than ever, given the fact that Israel has already killed any remaining chances for the establishment of a true Palestinian state worthy of the name.
The reason for this pessimistic outlook is crystal clear. It is the ubiquitous expansion of Jewish settlements all over the West Bank.
Hence, we should never believe anyone telling us that there is still a realistic chance for the so-called two state solutions.
In the final analysis we all know that what Israel has in mind is a deformed, disfigured state-let with a name and form, but without substance, an entity comprising a few isolated and scattered Bantustans, and surrounded by an archipelago of Jewish settlements.
Such a state would have no future. Hence, it would be utterly rejected by a vast majority of the Palestinian people, irrespective of all the inducements, the bribes, the bullying and threats expected under these circumstances.
What the PA should do?
The best thing the PA should do now, in light of the immense perils surrounding the Palestinian people and their just cause, is dissolving the PA.
The dissolution of the PA would remove the deceptive cosmetic off the face of the Israeli occupier.
PA leader Mahmoud Abbas admitted during his recent UN speech that his regime had no authority other than “the authority to beat Palestinians and break their bones on Israel's behalf".
If so, then what is the rationale behind maintaining such authority which Israel insists on perpetuating as a police state without a state? Continuing to receive hefty sums of dollars and Euros, much of which find their way to the pockets of an army of corrupt PA officials, their cronies and hangers-on?
It is true that the termination of the PA is easier said than done.
However, it is also true that every other factor, including the financial and commercial interests of PA operatives and their business partners, must be subordinate to the national cause.
I am saying this because there is a widespread impression among many Palestinians these days that the PA is effectively sacrificing paramount national interests for the sake of maintaining the business interests of some of its officials.
Unfortunately, this impression is justified to a large extent.
Indeed, despite the indescribable ruthlessness and brutality of the Israeli occupiers, which reflect the brutal ugliness of the Zionist mentality, the PA security agencies, acting on direct instructions from the top PA leadership, have been ganging on Palestinian protesters, protesting genuine and legitimate grievances, beating them mercilessly and breaking their bones, all in order to obtain a certificate of good conduct from Israel.
This is more than disgraceful.
After all, the Palestinian masses have been protesting decidedly criminal and murderous Israeli actions, including the increasingly daring assaults on the Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest spot on earth as far as Muslims are concerned, the barring of Muslims from accessing the mosque, and the nearly daily encroachment by millenarian Jewish fanatics into the Mosque for the purpose of arrogating at least part of it in order to build a Talmudic edifice which would eclipse the majestic Dome of the Rock.
Besides, the settlers, who are backed, protected and encouraged by the Israeli army and government, have been murdering Palestinians in cold blood, including burning alive sleeping men, women and children, as happened to the Dawabsheh family at the village of Duma south of Nablus a few weeks ago.
So what are we supposed to do as Palestinians, in the face of these murderous provocations? How would any other people under the sun behave under these circumstances?
PA gullibility
The excessive stupidity of the PA-PLO has been common knowledge ever since (and even before) the conclusion of the Oslo Accords.
The PLO recognized Israel without a reciprocal Israeli recognition and even without specifying the borders of the Zionist state the PLO leadership recognized.
Then the PA agreed to keep the bulk of the West Bank under Israeli control.
Then the PA agreed to put as many as 70,000 Palestinian security personnel at Israel's beck and call.
Then the PA did virtually nothing when Israel built the annexation wall, which devoured vast swathes of the West Bank.
Eventually, Israel continued to build more settlements everywhere in the West Bank, especially in East Jerusalem, making the declared Palestinian goal of establishing a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, closer to wishful thinking than to reality.
Hence the question: Isn't it the time to ask whether the continued existence of the PA has any justification?
I have no doubt that some PA-PLO officials may be sincere and have good intentions.
However, good intentions alone often spell disaster.
Needless to say, in our case, this seems to be the case.
Khalid Amayreh is a Palestinian journalist and current affairs commentator living in occupied Palestine.
It is amply clear by now that the Palestinian Authority (PA), which gravels at Israel's feet in what looks like a master-slave relationship, has become a real obstacle to the realization of Palestinian freedom from the clutches of Israeli occupation and domination.
PA leaders have repeatedly argued that the net outcome of the Oslo Process, signed between an insolent Israel and a vanquished PLO, has been a fat zero.
But the overall picture has been much bleaker.
PA-PLO officials, ever since the conclusion of the hapless accords, never really stopped deceiving and cheating the Palestinian people by promising them that a viable Palestinian state was looming just behind the horizon and that it was only a matter of a few years before our thoroughly tortured people would have their own independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.
Now, 22 years later, not only the promised state doesn't exist, but the prospects for its existence have become dimmer and dimmer than ever, given the fact that Israel has already killed any remaining chances for the establishment of a true Palestinian state worthy of the name.
The reason for this pessimistic outlook is crystal clear. It is the ubiquitous expansion of Jewish settlements all over the West Bank.
Hence, we should never believe anyone telling us that there is still a realistic chance for the so-called two state solutions.
In the final analysis we all know that what Israel has in mind is a deformed, disfigured state-let with a name and form, but without substance, an entity comprising a few isolated and scattered Bantustans, and surrounded by an archipelago of Jewish settlements.
Such a state would have no future. Hence, it would be utterly rejected by a vast majority of the Palestinian people, irrespective of all the inducements, the bribes, the bullying and threats expected under these circumstances.
What the PA should do?
The best thing the PA should do now, in light of the immense perils surrounding the Palestinian people and their just cause, is dissolving the PA.
The dissolution of the PA would remove the deceptive cosmetic off the face of the Israeli occupier.
PA leader Mahmoud Abbas admitted during his recent UN speech that his regime had no authority other than “the authority to beat Palestinians and break their bones on Israel's behalf".
If so, then what is the rationale behind maintaining such authority which Israel insists on perpetuating as a police state without a state? Continuing to receive hefty sums of dollars and Euros, much of which find their way to the pockets of an army of corrupt PA officials, their cronies and hangers-on?
It is true that the termination of the PA is easier said than done.
However, it is also true that every other factor, including the financial and commercial interests of PA operatives and their business partners, must be subordinate to the national cause.
I am saying this because there is a widespread impression among many Palestinians these days that the PA is effectively sacrificing paramount national interests for the sake of maintaining the business interests of some of its officials.
Unfortunately, this impression is justified to a large extent.
Indeed, despite the indescribable ruthlessness and brutality of the Israeli occupiers, which reflect the brutal ugliness of the Zionist mentality, the PA security agencies, acting on direct instructions from the top PA leadership, have been ganging on Palestinian protesters, protesting genuine and legitimate grievances, beating them mercilessly and breaking their bones, all in order to obtain a certificate of good conduct from Israel.
This is more than disgraceful.
After all, the Palestinian masses have been protesting decidedly criminal and murderous Israeli actions, including the increasingly daring assaults on the Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest spot on earth as far as Muslims are concerned, the barring of Muslims from accessing the mosque, and the nearly daily encroachment by millenarian Jewish fanatics into the Mosque for the purpose of arrogating at least part of it in order to build a Talmudic edifice which would eclipse the majestic Dome of the Rock.
Besides, the settlers, who are backed, protected and encouraged by the Israeli army and government, have been murdering Palestinians in cold blood, including burning alive sleeping men, women and children, as happened to the Dawabsheh family at the village of Duma south of Nablus a few weeks ago.
So what are we supposed to do as Palestinians, in the face of these murderous provocations? How would any other people under the sun behave under these circumstances?
PA gullibility
The excessive stupidity of the PA-PLO has been common knowledge ever since (and even before) the conclusion of the Oslo Accords.
The PLO recognized Israel without a reciprocal Israeli recognition and even without specifying the borders of the Zionist state the PLO leadership recognized.
Then the PA agreed to keep the bulk of the West Bank under Israeli control.
Then the PA agreed to put as many as 70,000 Palestinian security personnel at Israel's beck and call.
Then the PA did virtually nothing when Israel built the annexation wall, which devoured vast swathes of the West Bank.
Eventually, Israel continued to build more settlements everywhere in the West Bank, especially in East Jerusalem, making the declared Palestinian goal of establishing a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, closer to wishful thinking than to reality.
Hence the question: Isn't it the time to ask whether the continued existence of the PA has any justification?
I have no doubt that some PA-PLO officials may be sincere and have good intentions.
However, good intentions alone often spell disaster.
Needless to say, in our case, this seems to be the case.
Khalid Amayreh is a Palestinian journalist and current affairs commentator living in occupied Palestine.
29 sept 2015
Batesh calls on Abbas to declare the end of Oslo agreement
Islamic Jihad leader Khaled al-Batesh called on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to declare the end of Oslo Accords and to work on reforming the Palestinian internal relations.
In a statement posted on his Facebook page on Tuesday, Batesh called on Abbas to bear his responsibility for the Palestinian struggle which has been ongoing for tens of decades.
This came in the eve of Abbas’s expected speech at the United Nations on Wednesday, on which Abbas said “it will be a bomb”.
Batesh said, “The only way to confront the Israeli offensive practices against the Aqsa Mosque and the attempts of dividing the holy site temporally and spatially is to regain unity and to enhance national partnership as well as to unify the Palestinian political path to win the unanimous support of the Arab and Muslim nations.
The Islamic Jihad leader urged Abbas not to surrender to external pressure to return back to negotiations which, he opined, will allow Israel to implement its plans of dividing the Aqsa Mosque and continuing construction of settlements.
15 sept 2015
Batesh calls on Abbas to declare the end of Oslo agreement
Islamic Jihad leader Khaled al-Batesh called on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to declare the end of Oslo Accords and to work on reforming the Palestinian internal relations.
In a statement posted on his Facebook page on Tuesday, Batesh called on Abbas to bear his responsibility for the Palestinian struggle which has been ongoing for tens of decades.
This came in the eve of Abbas’s expected speech at the United Nations on Wednesday, on which Abbas said “it will be a bomb”.
Batesh said, “The only way to confront the Israeli offensive practices against the Aqsa Mosque and the attempts of dividing the holy site temporally and spatially is to regain unity and to enhance national partnership as well as to unify the Palestinian political path to win the unanimous support of the Arab and Muslim nations.
The Islamic Jihad leader urged Abbas not to surrender to external pressure to return back to negotiations which, he opined, will allow Israel to implement its plans of dividing the Aqsa Mosque and continuing construction of settlements.
15 sept 2015
On the 22nd anniversary of the signing of the Oslo accords, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) called Monday for canceling the Oslo agreement and its security, economic, and political addendums.
In a statement issued Monday evening, the PFLP called for re-tabling the Palestinian issue within the UN framework and for implementing the UN resolutions and not to negotiate over them.
The Oslo accords have brought untold suffering on the Palestinian people in light of the Israeli continued occupation, settlement expansion, escalated crimes and attacks, and Judaization schemes, the statement reads.
According to the statement, there is no Palestinian national project as long as the Oslo accords continue to exist.
Security coordination between Palestinian and Israeli authorities and the direct and indirect meetings with occupation leaders push forward for canceling the Oslo accords and its catastrophic effects on the Palestinian cause, the PFLP said.
The statement concluded by calling for re-structuring the Palestine Liberation Organization and for ensuring a unity session for the Palestinian National Council.
In a statement issued Monday evening, the PFLP called for re-tabling the Palestinian issue within the UN framework and for implementing the UN resolutions and not to negotiate over them.
The Oslo accords have brought untold suffering on the Palestinian people in light of the Israeli continued occupation, settlement expansion, escalated crimes and attacks, and Judaization schemes, the statement reads.
According to the statement, there is no Palestinian national project as long as the Oslo accords continue to exist.
Security coordination between Palestinian and Israeli authorities and the direct and indirect meetings with occupation leaders push forward for canceling the Oslo accords and its catastrophic effects on the Palestinian cause, the PFLP said.
The statement concluded by calling for re-structuring the Palestine Liberation Organization and for ensuring a unity session for the Palestinian National Council.
15 aug 2015
Member of Fatah Central Committee Mohammad Shtayyeh admitted the failure of Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA).
In a speech delivered at the opening of the refugees’ conference at Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem, Shtayyeh said the PA should have turned into a state since 1999, but Israel destroyed everything and sought to cancel the PA, especially during the Second Intifada.
He stressed that the PA is a mere title and, in fact, it is an expanded municipality.
The Fatah leader opined that Israel does not want a state of Palestine established on 1967 borders as it knows well once such a state is established the end of Israel would automatically start.
In a speech delivered at the opening of the refugees’ conference at Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem, Shtayyeh said the PA should have turned into a state since 1999, but Israel destroyed everything and sought to cancel the PA, especially during the Second Intifada.
He stressed that the PA is a mere title and, in fact, it is an expanded municipality.
The Fatah leader opined that Israel does not want a state of Palestine established on 1967 borders as it knows well once such a state is established the end of Israel would automatically start.
19 mar 2015
Member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Bassam al-Salhi urged, in the wake of Benjamin Netanyahu’s victory in the Israeli electoral race, the Palestinian leadership to overthrow the Oslo deal struck with the Israeli occupation.
Al-Salhi said in his statements to the Quds Press that the post-elections scene uncovers a racist and extremist right-wing positions pursued by the Israeli community and its stakeholders, who have rejected political solutions and turned their back to the UN resolutions.
Al-Salhi, also Secretary General of the Palestinian People’s Party, urged the Palestinian Authority to cease all deals with a Netanyahu-run government after the latter has swept elections and announced his firm rebuff to the two-state solution.
The PLO official further spoke out against Netanyahu’s adoption of a pro-illegal settlement position, which stands in sharp contrast to the UN resolutions and Palestinian national standpoints.
He called for the need to adopt a unified national position, pool resources, heal the internal rift, and to form an international, Arab alliance to jointly face up to Israel’s despotism and foster the boycott-of-Israel campaigns as a means to thwart Israel’s racist machine.
Al-Salhi said in his statements to the Quds Press that the post-elections scene uncovers a racist and extremist right-wing positions pursued by the Israeli community and its stakeholders, who have rejected political solutions and turned their back to the UN resolutions.
Al-Salhi, also Secretary General of the Palestinian People’s Party, urged the Palestinian Authority to cease all deals with a Netanyahu-run government after the latter has swept elections and announced his firm rebuff to the two-state solution.
The PLO official further spoke out against Netanyahu’s adoption of a pro-illegal settlement position, which stands in sharp contrast to the UN resolutions and Palestinian national standpoints.
He called for the need to adopt a unified national position, pool resources, heal the internal rift, and to form an international, Arab alliance to jointly face up to Israel’s despotism and foster the boycott-of-Israel campaigns as a means to thwart Israel’s racist machine.
21 feb 2015
Palestinian lawmaker Mona Mansour has called on the Palestinian Authority (PA) to renounce the Oslo agreement because of its contribution to the rupture of the Palestinian national and social fabrics.
In an interview with the Palestinian Information Center (PIC), MP Mansour said that the PA needs to free itself of this ill-fated security agreement after it had shackled itself with it for a long time, especially since the Israeli occupation flouted its terms.
"Since the signing of the Oslo Accords and until now, the Palestinians have been paying the price for this agreement from the lives of their children, while the Palestinian national fabric and the social fabric is being increasingly torn apart day after day," the lawmaker underlined.
"What makes the PA cling to such agreements [with Israel] and observe the security-related points while the Palestinian people are suffering from the occupation? The Palestinian people had enough suffering and now they need some kindness and not oppression from their Authority," she added.
The lawmaker also talked about the Palestinian people's suffering from political detentions, affirming that such arrests appeared as a result of the Oslo agreement.
"The Palestinian people live in very difficult economic, political and social conditions and it does not make sense, after such suffering, to make them suffer from political arrests."
"The political arrests did not start after the [Palestinian] division as they had claimed in 2007, it emerged in 1993 immediately after the signing of the Oslo agreement," she stated.
In an interview with the Palestinian Information Center (PIC), MP Mansour said that the PA needs to free itself of this ill-fated security agreement after it had shackled itself with it for a long time, especially since the Israeli occupation flouted its terms.
"Since the signing of the Oslo Accords and until now, the Palestinians have been paying the price for this agreement from the lives of their children, while the Palestinian national fabric and the social fabric is being increasingly torn apart day after day," the lawmaker underlined.
"What makes the PA cling to such agreements [with Israel] and observe the security-related points while the Palestinian people are suffering from the occupation? The Palestinian people had enough suffering and now they need some kindness and not oppression from their Authority," she added.
The lawmaker also talked about the Palestinian people's suffering from political detentions, affirming that such arrests appeared as a result of the Oslo agreement.
"The Palestinian people live in very difficult economic, political and social conditions and it does not make sense, after such suffering, to make them suffer from political arrests."
"The political arrests did not start after the [Palestinian] division as they had claimed in 2007, it emerged in 1993 immediately after the signing of the Oslo agreement," she stated.
