giovedì 6 dicembre 2007

PCHR Is Concerned over Measures Taken by Dismissed Government towards Gaza Municipality

06.12.07 PCHR is deeply concerned over the latest measures taken by the dismissed government in Gaza towards the Municipality of Gaza, and stresses that such measures, which contributes to further deterioration to the persistent inherited crisis of the municipality, like other municipalities that are managed by councils appointed by the Palestinian National Authority (PNA).


1) PCHR stresses that these latest measures are part of the political conflict between Fatah and Hamas movements, which has impacted the executive, the judiciary and the legislature.

2) PCHR rejects the intervention of the dismissed government in Gaza into the affairs of the Municipality of Gaza, emphasizing that such intervention does not solve the municipality’s persistent problems, rather it devastates them.

3) PCHR fully realizes the problems endured by the Municipality of Gaza, the largest city in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, especially the problem of salaries, which caused strikes that disrupted basic services provided by the municipality.

4) PCHR believes that the absence of democratic practice and the appointment of committees by the PNA to manage municipalities constituted a prelude for mismanagement and the absence of transparency, which reinforced affiliation to governmental bodies rather than maintaining the independence of professionalism of municipalities.

5) The persistent crisis of municipalities can only be resolved through democracy and free and fair elections. In this context, PCHR recalls that a number of major municipalities in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, including the Municipality of Gaza, are managed by councils appointed by the PNA although elections were held for the majority of municipalities in the period December 2004 – December 2005.

6) Although PCHR believes that elections are the sole solution, it realizes the obstacles that obstruct holding such elections, including the lack of political will and compromise of the parties of the crisis.

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For more information please call PCHR office in Gaza, Gaza Strip, on +972 8 2824776 - 2825893

PCHR, 29 Omer El Mukhtar St., El Remal, PO Box 1328 Gaza, Gaza Strip. E-mail: pchr@pchrgaza.org, Webpage http://www.pchrgaza.org

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