Hamas condemns Abbas's cancellation of allowances to families of martyrs, prisoners

Hamas condemned PA President Mahmoud Abbas’ decision to cancel the payment of financial allowances to the families of prisoners, martyrs and the wounded.

In a statement the movement said: “We in the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) condemn the decision of President Mahmoud Abbas to cancel the payment of financial allocations to the families of prisoners, martyrs and wounded, and to abandon their national cause, at a time when our people and resistance forces are working to preserve the rights of martyrs, liberate prisoners and provide a decent life for the liberated.”

The movement added that this behaviour is “unpatriotic and departs from one of the national constants.”

“We call for an immediate reversal of it, and not to submit to the pressures of the Zionist occupation and the American administration,” Hamas added, noting: “We need to appreciate the sacrifices of the prisoners and wounded and martyrs’ families and the price they paid in the form of their lives and years in the occupation’s prisons. We must protect their families instead of abandoning them at this fateful moment in the history of our Palestinian cause.”

Abbas yesterday issued a decree cancelling the allowances paid to the families of prisoners, martyrs, and the wounded as part of the prisoners’ law and the regulations issued by the Council of Ministers and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO).

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