We will honor “our responsibility” to terrorist prisoners, “their salaries will reach them,” says PLO official
Director of PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs Qadri Abu Bakr: “We aren’t relinquishing our responsibility towards the prisoners. President Abbas also announced that we won’t relinquish [it] and that their salaries will reach them. However, it should be done so that the prisoners will get their salaries with pride and dignity, like any other person... Of course, there need to be responses to this. It is not enough that we refuse, there needs to be categorical rejection [of this] in the Palestinian street, in the political and governmental arena… It is not enough to say “We oppose.” “We oppose.”
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