Palestinian official calls for dissolving PNA

A Palestinian official on Wednesday called for dissolving the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) in response to Israel's actions to put obstacles on the way of the administrative body.

The Palestinian leadership has to consider dissolving the PNA if Israel refused to deal with three key issues right away to secure the functioning of the PNA, Ghassan al-Masri, spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), said in a statement.

The three issues include an Israeli withdrawal from the territories that it occupied since 2000, he said.

The second one, according to al-Masri, was that Israel has to give back tax revenues.

Israel has stopped transferring tax revenues since the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) took office in late March. The money is the basic source to keep the PNA running.

The third one was that Israel immediately releases all Palestinian ministers and lawmakers captured after Palestinian militants seized an Israeli soldier in late June, he said.

Meanwhile, Hamas lawmaker Mahmoud Meslleh said that more Palestinians have called for dissolving the PNA, as Israel has continued defying Palestinian laws and legislature and even arrested ministers and lawmakers.

"The best reaction to such arrests and policies is the dissolution of the PNA," said Jamal Abu el-Robb, lawmaker from Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement.

The PNA, an interim administrative body, was established in 1994 under the Oslo Peace Accords signed between Israel and the PLO one year earlier.

Source: Xinhua