Tensions between Fatah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) have escalated over Mahmoud Abbas’ decision to cut financial payments from the Palestinian National Fund to the latter, the Anadolu Agency reported yesterday.
Members of the PFLP took to the streets in Gaza in protest against Abbas’ decision to cut funds, burning pictures of him during their protest.
Fatah condemned the actions saying they were “outside the national context” and called on the PFLP to apologise.
Jamil Mizher, member of the PFLP’s political bureau, condemned any “defamation and degradation” to any Palestinian symbols.
“We condemn this individual act,” Mizher said, calling for Abbas to stop monopolising the Palestinian decision. “The PFLP will continue as it has been for ever,” he said, “and we will continue criticising any party which deviates from the national rules dedicated for assisting the country.”
Meanwhile, Fatah spokesman in the occupied West Bank Osama Al-Qawasmeh expressed his movement’s anger over the “escalated negative tone” of the PFLP.
The PFLP has repeatedly called for Abbas to work towards lifting the siege on the Gaza Strip and to stop collecting high taxes from the electricity company in Gaza which runs the sole energy plant in the enclave.
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