RAMALLAH, March 13, 2018 (WAFA) – Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee member Hanan Ashrawi condemned on Tuesday the explosion in Gaza targeting Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah and General Intelligence Chief Majed Faraj, describing it as cowardly act.

The PLO official said in a statement that "this deplorable assassination attempt targeting Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah and Intelligence Chief Majed Faraj is a cowardly act of criminality.”

She said that “such violence aimed at the Prime Minister as he was inaugurating projects to repair the infrastructure and to provide the Palestinian people of Gaza with the basic requirements of a decent life, is tantamount to an act of betrayal.”

“It is particularly vicious in that it sought to undermine all efforts at reunification and thereby weaken the Palestinian cause as a whole.”

Ashrawi stressed that “such lawlessness and criminality must be firmly checked and the perpetrators must be brought to justice in accordance with the rule of law.”

“This also intensifies the urgency of ending the division and unifying all structural institutional, security, legal and judicial aspects of Palestinian reality," Ashrawi concluded.

T.R./M.K.