2024-03-16 18:00:40
Mustafa’s government explodes the largest dispute between “Fatah” and “Hamas”
The new Palestinian government, before its formation, sparked the widest dispute between the Fatah and Hamas movements, and brought it out to the public for the first time since the beginning of the brutal Israeli war on the Gaza Strip last October, following Hamas’ sudden attack on the lands located there. Under Israeli control around the Gaza Strip, which ended with the killing of 1,200 Israelis and the detention of regarding 240 in the Gaza Strip.
Fatah used harsh language in its attack on Hamas, which described Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as disconnected from reality following the decision to assign Dr. Muhammad Mustafa to form a new Palestinian government. Fatah said in a statement: “Whoever caused Israel’s reoccupation of the Gaza Strip, and caused the Nakba that the Palestinian people are experiencing, especially in the Gaza Strip, does not have the right to dictate national priorities.”
A Palestinian woman carries some of her belongings next to buildings damaged by Israeli raids on the Al-Rimal neighborhood near Gaza City on Friday night (AFP)
Fatah believed that “the real disconnect from reality and from the Palestinian people is the leadership of the Hamas movement, which has not, until this moment, felt the magnitude of the catastrophe that our oppressed people are experiencing in the Gaza Strip and in the rest of the Palestinian territories.”
In its statement, Fatah expressed its astonishment and disapproval at Hamas’ talk of exclusivity and division, and wondered: Did Hamas consult the Palestinian leadership or any Palestinian national party when it made its decision to undertake the adventure of last October 7, which led to a more horrific and cruel catastrophe? From the Nakba of 1948? Did Hamas consult the Palestinian leadership and is now negotiating with Israel and offering it concessions following concessions, and that it has no goal other than for its leadership to receive guarantees for its personal security, and to try to reach an agreement with (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu once more to maintain its divisive role in Gaza and the Palestinian arena?
Fatah also considered that “the comfortable life that the Hamas leadership lives in seven-star hotels has blinded it to what is right.”
Palestinian women wait in front of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, where wounded relatives were taken following Israeli raids on the west of the Nuseirat camp today, Saturday (AFP)
Fatah called on the leadership of the Hamas movement to “stop its policy dependent on foreign agendas, and return to the national side.”
The Fatah statement came in response to an attack launched by Hamas and three Palestinian factions once morest President Mahmoud Abbas following he assigned Dr. Muhammad Mustafa to form a new Palestinian government.
A statement signed by four factions, namely the Hamas movement, the Islamic Jihad movement, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the Palestinian National Initiative Movement, said: “In light of the Palestinian Authority’s insistence on continuing the policy of exclusivity, and ignoring all efforts Patriotism for Palestinian unity, and unity in the face of aggression once morest our people; We express our rejection of the continuation of this approach, which has caused and continues to harm our people and our national cause.”
The factions believed that “the highest national priority now is to confront the barbaric Zionist aggression and the war of extermination and starvation” and not “to form a new government.”
The statement described President Abbas’s decision as “individual,” and added: “Making individual decisions, and being preoccupied with formal steps devoid of substance, such as forming a new government without national consensus; It is a reinforcement of the policy of exclusivity and a deepening of division, at a pivotal historical moment.”
Destruction in the Al-Rimal neighborhood next to Gaza City today, Saturday, following Israeli raids the previous night (AFP)
The statement saw that “the president’s steps demonstrate the depth of the crisis within the authority’s leadership, its separation from reality, and the large gap between it and our people, their concerns and aspirations.”
On Thursday, the Palestinian President assigned Mustafa to form the nineteenth government, specifying 11 priorities for it, including leading and coordinating relief efforts in the Gaza Strip, moving from the stage of humanitarian relief to economic recovery, and then organizing the reconstruction file, and rebuilding what was destroyed by the Israeli war. .
The priorities included developing plans and implementation mechanisms for the process of reunifying institutions, as a single geographical, political, national and institutional unit, and continuing the reform process in all institutional, security, economic, administrative and public financial fields, to reach a transparent governance system that is subject to accountability, combats corruption, and provides support to the judicial system and respect for public freedoms. Strengthening relations with Arab and friendly countries, strengthening the steadfastness of citizens, taking the necessary measures, preparing to hold legislative and presidential elections, and ensuring the freedom of the media to work.
Mustafa, a well-known businessman and economic expert, was assigned following the resignation of former Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh, in response to American and international requests, to carry out reforms in the Palestinian Authority. Abbas’s move also withdraws pretexts from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who does not want Fatah or Hamas to rule the Gaza Strip.
President Mahmoud Abbas faces accusations of “uniqueness” in the decision to form a new Palestinian government (dpa)
Hamas expected to be consulted on the issue of forming the government, but it was surprised by Abbas’s decision, which he largely ignored.
A source in the Palestinian Authority told Asharq Al-Awsat that the relationship between Fatah and Hamas was not good even following the war, and remained at the lowest level of communication, adding that Abbas’s decision to form the government came in the context that “there is no need to wait for anyone. “The priorities that Hamas talks regarding necessitate the formation of a government capable of doing so,” referring to the goal of providing relief to people and rebuilding the Strip.
The source added that the decision was taken in the context of understandings with Arab and Western countries involved in the arrangements for the next day in Gaza.
He stressed that “Hamas, which cannot now rule the Gaza Strip, must not hinder those who can save and help the people there.”
Mustafa is the head of the Palestine Investment Fund, an economic advisor to Abbas, in addition to being a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and responsible for its economic department.
Mustafa, who is independent, will form a government of independents who are experts in their field, away from the Palestinian factions that usually controlled previous governments.
Mustafa, according to Article 65 of the Palestinian Basic Law, has three weeks from the date of his choice to form the government, and he has the right to another period of no more than two weeks maximum.
Mustafa accepted his assignment and addressed Abbas on Friday, telling him that while he was honored to accept this assignment, “I am aware of the seriousness of this stage that our national cause is going through, the difficult circumstances that our steadfast people are experiencing, and the magnitude of the existing challenges.”
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