Hamas calls for reversal of Palestinian president's cancellation of financial aid to families of prisoners

“We in the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) condemn the decision of President Mahmoud Abbas to cancel the payment of financial allocations to the families of prisoners, martyrs and wounded, and to abandon their national cause, at a time when our people and resistance forces are working to preserve the rights of martyrs, liberate prisoners and provide a decent life for the liberated”, a statement, released by Hamas on Telegram, says.

Earlier on Monday, Abbas issued a decree revoking the payment system of “financial allowances for the families of Palestinian prisoners, martyrs and injured”.

In the statement, Hamas said Abbas's behaviour was “unpatriotic” and departs from “one of the national constants”.

It also accused Abbas of abandoning the prisoners at a “fateful moment in the history of our Palestinian cause”.

"We call for an immediate reversal of it, and not to submit to the pressures of the Zionist occupation and the American administration.” Hamas added.