Funds from the Palestine National Fund to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) have been cut, a member of the leftist group told The New Arab, after the leftist faction called on President Mahmoud Abbas to resign from government.
The fund was established to support the Palestine Liberation Organisation and distributes funds to various Palestinian factions, but the group said its share of the funds has beene cut in a politically-motivated move by the Fatah leader.
Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, is ultimately responsible for the management of the fund.
"The decision is wrong, it seems like Abu Mazen [Mahmoud Abbas] is not well read in modern history. In all of the front's history it has never responded well to pressure - neither regional nor international," Rabah Muhanna, member of the political bureau for the group told The New Arab.
"[People] will not change their positions on matters relating to national interest at any price," he said.
He went on to describe Abbas' decision as one that was taken without consulting the Executive Committee of the PLO.
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