Fatah official: "We will not submit to the occupation's policies, whether they will include stopping the salaries of the prisoners and the Martyrs' families"
Headline: "Dalal Salameh: The Palestinian leadership is determined to end the rift, and not to manage it"
"In order to discuss the most prominent political events and analyze the current Palestinian arena, the Al-Quds monthly held the following interview with Fatah Movement Central Committee member [and Fatah Commissioner of NGOs] Dalal Salameh:
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[Q:] 'What do you think about Israel's attempt to legislate a law that allows the deduction of the salaries (rawatib) of the prisoners and the Martyrs' (Shahids') families from the tax revenues that it collects [for the PA]?'
[Fatah Movement Central Committee member and Fatah Commissioner of NGOs Dalal Salameh:] 'It is one of the steps of escalation that the occupation is carrying out against the members of our people regarding taxes due to our adherence to our rights and our strong commitment to the fundamental Palestinian principles - in the framework of which we refuse to renounce the land, Jerusalem, and the right of return, and we will not agree to accept a political plan that does not include the end of the occupation in accordance with the international decisions, according to which a Palestinian state must be established in the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, the settlements must be evacuated, and the prisoners must be released. Every time that our fundamental principles contradict the wishes of the occupation, it imposes many punishments on us whose goal is to pressure us, as a people and as a leadership, to submit. However, a people that has sacrificed prisoners and Martyrs for the homeland will not agree to erase the history of its struggle and will not submit to pressures. Our way has not been strewn with roses along the path of our achievements, and [punishment] is the way of the occupation, as it always distorts our struggle, our history, and our right to our land. However, our struggle is included in the framework of international law and we will not submit to the occupation's policies, whether they will include stopping the salaries of the prisoners and the Martyrs' families, or a different type of escalation.'"
The article appears in the June 2017 edition of the magazine of Fatah’s Information and Culture Commission in Lebanon, Al-Quds, and was posted on the commission’s website Falestinona on June 29, 2017.
"In order to discuss the most prominent political events and analyze the current Palestinian arena, the Al-Quds monthly held the following interview with Fatah Movement Central Committee member [and Fatah Commissioner of NGOs] Dalal Salameh:
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[Q:] 'What do you think about Israel's attempt to legislate a law that allows the deduction of the salaries (rawatib) of the prisoners and the Martyrs' (Shahids') families from the tax revenues that it collects [for the PA]?'
[Fatah Movement Central Committee member and Fatah Commissioner of NGOs Dalal Salameh:] 'It is one of the steps of escalation that the occupation is carrying out against the members of our people regarding taxes due to our adherence to our rights and our strong commitment to the fundamental Palestinian principles - in the framework of which we refuse to renounce the land, Jerusalem, and the right of return, and we will not agree to accept a political plan that does not include the end of the occupation in accordance with the international decisions, according to which a Palestinian state must be established in the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, the settlements must be evacuated, and the prisoners must be released. Every time that our fundamental principles contradict the wishes of the occupation, it imposes many punishments on us whose goal is to pressure us, as a people and as a leadership, to submit. However, a people that has sacrificed prisoners and Martyrs for the homeland will not agree to erase the history of its struggle and will not submit to pressures. Our way has not been strewn with roses along the path of our achievements, and [punishment] is the way of the occupation, as it always distorts our struggle, our history, and our right to our land. However, our struggle is included in the framework of international law and we will not submit to the occupation's policies, whether they will include stopping the salaries of the prisoners and the Martyrs' families, or a different type of escalation.'"
The article appears in the June 2017 edition of the magazine of Fatah’s Information and Culture Commission in Lebanon, Al-Quds, and was posted on the commission’s website Falestinona on June 29, 2017.