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Shams News · 2021-01-26
Shams News reports a post on his Facebook page about the Palestinian Authority's employees in Gaza. Shaban calls them among the first and biggest victims of the division: forced to stay at home and barred from their jobs, they lived under heavy psychological, economic and social pressure, and since March 2017 their salaries have been cut so sharply that many cannot meet family needs and some have fallen into poverty. He recalls that they were the first core of the Palestinian state apparatus founded in 1994, many of them highly qualified, and urges the PA to treat them with respect.
Shams News reports a post on his Facebook page about the Palestinian Authority's employees in Gaza. Shaban calls them among the first and biggest victims of the division: forced to stay at home and barred from their jobs, they lived under heavy psychological, economic and social pressure, and since…
Political economist Omar Shaban said, “Palestinian Authority employees in the Gaza Strip were among the first and greatest victims of the division; they were forced to stay in their homes and deprived of performing their jobs, which grant them self-respect and give them social standing.”
Shaban explained in a post on his personal Facebook page that PA employees lived under enormous psychological, economic, and social pressures imposed by adherence to the Authority’s instructions to stop working, malicious reports, and being denied the ability to be active in serving their families and their society, even during times of war and crises.
He added: “Since March 2017, their salaries have been reduced by large percentages, leaving many of them unable to meet family, personal, and professional needs.”
He continued: “Some of them have fallen into the abyss of poverty, need, and begging, even though PA employees in the Gaza Strip are the first nucleus of the governmental apparatus that formed the Palestinian state since its establishment in 1994, and they constituted one of its main pillars.”
He pointed out that many of them are qualified, trained, and competent at global standards, adding: “A great deal has been invested in them, both by their families and nationally, in education, training, and qualification locally and internationally. The issue of employees is the issue of an entire society. The Authority, in its treatment of its employees, who are among its own people, expresses itself.”
He called on the Palestinian Authority to deal with them with all appreciation and respect.
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