PLO official supports salaries for terrorists; describes structural changes in PLO prisoners’ affairs commission
Official PA TV News, hosting PLO Commission of Prisoners' Affairs Administrative Committee member Abd Al-Fattah Doleh
PLO Commission of Prisoners' Affairs Administrative Committee member Abd Al-Fattah Doleh: “The response (to implementation of Israeli legislation to deduct terror salaries from PA tax money; see note below –Ed.) has come clearly from the head of the Palestinian pyramid: His Honor [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas said clearly: ‘Even if we’re left with one penny, we will pay it to the prisoners, to the Martyrs, and to their families. This is a red line.’ And this is proof that the Palestinian position is firm. Therefore, everyone is now adopting this position, which His Honor the president expressed clearly. Everyone is a soldier for the defense of the Palestinian prisoners and the Martyrs’ rights. Inside and outside the prisons, the prisoners, the prisoners’ children, and their families are being defended. We will defend this right, and we will defend it with all of the means (i.e., term used by Palestinians, which also refers to the use of violence and terror) and might at our disposal…
You know, several months ago President Mahmoud Abbas appointed a group of brothers to manage the [PLO] Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs. The commission had been led by one man, and the director of the commission had managed it. Now the commission is an administrative system that is managed by an administrative committee. Among the missions that have been given to this committee is arranging and correcting the situation with the institutions that work with the prisoners.”