The PA complains to the international community about its difficult economic situation and blames the Arab countries for stopping the annual financial aid to the PA several years ago, but this does not prevent the Palestinian Authority officials from celebrating at the expense of the Palestinian public’s money.
The new scandal that has become the talk of the day on the Palestinian street is the composition of the Palestinian delegation to the World Cup games in Qatar.
Several Palestinian websites published official documents of the Palestinian Authority on the composition of the Palestinian delegations traveling to Qatar for the World Cup games and the financial expenses that will be financed by the Palestinian Ministry of Finance.
The large financial expenses provoked severe criticism on the Palestinian street and on social media in view of the cuts in the salaries of tens of thousands of PA officials and the claims of a major financial crisis.
It turns out that according to the documents leaked to the Palestinian websites, the PA will finance the trip of PA Chairman Abu Mazen and his family to Qatar, Including his sons and grandsons and the travel of his associates Hussein a-Sheikh Majed Faraj and Majdi Al-Khaldi and with them their assistants and security guards at a cost of 600 thousand shekels.
Calls were published on social media demanding the head of the anti-corruption division of the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian attorney general to investigate the suspicions of corruption related to the trip of senior Palestinian Authority officials to Qatar.
The Palestinian Authority refuses to comment on the official documents published on social media related to the trip to Qatar, which increases the popular anger, the Palestinian public demands explanations from its leadership and does not receive them.
The criticism is great and many on the street claim that the money of the Palestinian Authority belongs to the Palestinian people and the families of the martyrs who fought for the establishment of the Palestinian state while the chairman of the Palestinian Authority and his associates enjoy life and power.
The trip of PA officials to the World Cup games in Qatar is just another example of the phenomenon of corruption in the PA, the fish stinks from the head.
Exposing the part of Abu Mazen, who celebrated his 87th birthday this week, only further damages his status in the Palestinian street in addition to his weakness in the political field and increases the calls for his replacement and comprehensive reforms in the PLO.
