PNC called on the international community and its related institutions and parliaments to assume their responsibility towards the Palestinian people who are facing the Israeli occupation and the pandemic at the same time, and to pressure the Israeli occupation to stop its policies and procedures of arresting, settling and demolishing homes, and to pressure Israel to release the Palestinian funds that were unlawfully confiscated, and to lift the siege on Gaza Strip, so that Palestinians can use the money to face the pandemic that threatens all the mankind.
In a statement issued today, PNC called on the relevant international institutions to pressure Israel to play its role and not to hinder the efforts of the Palestinian government in facing this pandemic, and bear its responsibility as an occupying power towards the Palestinian workers who are working in Israel, and bear its responsibility towards our Palestinian people in the city of Jerusalem and provide adequate health care to protect them from this dangerous pandemic.
PNC also called on the International Red Cross and the related humanitarian and human rights organizations to exert more efforts to protect our brave prisoners and detainees in the Israeli occupation prisons, and to pressure the occupation authorities to release them immediately, especially the patients, the elderly and women, and to provide all medical supplies to assist the prisoners in Israeli prisons to be protected from Coronavirus.
PNC renewed its support for the efforts and measures led by President Mahmoud Abbas, and the Palestinian government Prime Minister Dr. Mohammad Shtayeh, to protect our people from the "Coronavirus" pandemic which endanger the mankind.
PNC commended the exceptional measures taken by the Palestinian government, and harnessed all material and human capabilities to confront the Coronavirus to protect the public health in the State of Palestine, and praising also all the voluntary efforts of the Palestinian factions and local emergency committees to assist the government to besiege and defeat this dangerous pandemic.
PNC called on the Palestinian businessmen in the homeland and diaspora to support the "Waqfit-Ezz" Fund established by the Palestinian government, that formulated it of a number of Palestinian figures from the private sector, to support and shoulder the government's efforts in providing the necessary medical supplies in such circumstances that need unity and solidarity of all sectors to maintain the safety and health of our people.