AMMAN, (PIC)-- Fatah sources ruled out holding the sixth conference of Fatah in the near future, attributing this to the altercations that erupted between members of the preparatory committee on the mechanisms and the location of the conference.
The sources said, in a statement published Wednesday in the Saudi Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper, that these disputes became heated after members of the preparatory committee of the sixth Fatah conference Hakam Balawi and Nasser Yousef traded insults over the increase of the conference membership.
According to the sources, Yousef strongly refused the proposal of increasing the conference membership and insisted the committee reduce the number of members from 2,900 members to about 1,500.
The sources added that Fatah members inside the 1948 occupied land rejected this reduction and tried to raise the number of members.
They noted that Fatah conference members are also wrangling over the place for holding the conference after Jordan and Egypt refused ex-PA chief Mahmoud Abbas's request to hold the sixth Fatah conference in their countries.
Until now, the besieged Gaza Strip has stayed free of the novel coronavirus spreading across the world. As the Gaza Strip has been under a stringent Israeli-led blockade for nearly 13 years, the spread of the coronavirus - officially known as COVID-19 - has become the topic of discussion for many Palestinians, with some joking that the blockade was preventing them from being exposed.But as authorities in the coastal Palestinian enclave gear up to contain any potential outbreak, serious questions have arisen about the risks and implications of such a scenario. But given its already difficult humanitarian situation and high population density, an outbreak in the Gaza Strip could prove to be catastrophic, health officials have warned. "If the virus enters Gaza and spreads, it will get out of hand," Gaza Ministry of Health spokesperson Majdi Thuhair told Middle East Eye, as he explained that a severe shortage of resources and personnel would make it near impossible
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