Tayseer Khaled, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, member of the Politbureau of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, condemned the announcement by the Australian government that it would stop direct aid to the Palestinian Authority, fearing that this aid would be transferred to prisoners in Israeli jails .
He expressed surprise to the position of Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, who expressed her bad faith in the use of the aid of 10 million Australian dollars, not only as a blackmail tool for the Palestinian side, but also as a terrible means to criminalize the struggle of the Palestinian people against occupation and for freedom and independence.
Instead Minister Julie Bishop like to fund the aid to the United Nations Humanitarian Fund for Palestinian Territories, which provides shelter services to those in need, although she is confident that the former Australian funding of the Palestinian Authority through World Bank has been used as intended.
He stressed condemnation of the Palestinian people by all its forces, parties, and national activities for this surprising position, and called Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop for not politicizing this trivial amount of aid , using it to serve Israeli propaganda and policy and not to follow the footsteps of Washington and Tel Aviv against Palestinian people, who pay expensive price to liberate from occupation including more than 200 martyrs s and more than 15 thousand injured ince the recognition of President Trump, Jerusalem, as the capital of the Israeli at the end of last year , most of them children, women and workers in the media and in medical staff as a result of terrorist snipers in the Israeli occupation army.