Sunday 14 March 2010

Union of teachers slams PA for cutting salaries of 2,000 teachers


PIC

[ 14/03/2010 - 09:00 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- The union of Palestinian teachers strongly denounced the Palestinian Authority (PA) in Ramallah and its unconstitutional government for cutting the salaries of two thousand teachers in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank because of their political affiliation.

Dean of teachers Hamdi Abu Layla called in a news conference held in Gaza city for working on protecting the civil servants in the educational sector from the arbitrary measures pursued against them by the PA.

Abu Layla urged human rights organizations, Palestinian lawmakers and official and popular institutions to assume their role in saving the education process from deterioration and collapse.

The PA had fired during this month more than 500 civil servants for political reasons.

In another context, senior Israeli military commander Avi Mizrahi hailed Mahmoud Abbas’s militias for the security measures they take against Hamas cadres and supporters in the West Bank.

Maariv newspaper quoted Mizrahi as saying that after Gaza events between Hamas and Fatah, Abbas’s militias and his authority came to the conclusion that they must never let Hamas control the West Bank.

He added, "Israel does a great security job in the West Bank thanks to its intelligence, security and military agencies, but it owes 45 percent of this success to Abbas’s security apparatuses".

The commander stressed the need for maintaining the security cooperation with the PA in order for politicians to find a political horizon, noting that more than 800 Palestinians affiliated with Hamas are in the jails of PA security apparatuses, which interrogate its prisoners better than Israel.

In a new development, Abbas’s militias kidnapped on Sunday four Palestinians affiliated with Hamas in the districts of Nablus and Al-Khalil.

These militias also transferred a prisoner in its jails called Riyadh Al-Nadi to hospital after the deterioration of his health condition. Nadi was kidnapped only few days after his release from Israeli jails recently.
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