Ministry for Diaspora Affairs | September 2024

Part H

02 In 2023, the PA Chairman, Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), held two events honoring the children of martyrs and prisoners at the Presidential Headquarters in Ramallah: On July 1, the "Mahmoud Abbas Foundation" 55 held a festival for the children of prisoners at the Presidential Headquarters in the presence of Mahmoud Abbas himself. 56 On April 23, the Mahmoud Abbas Foundation organized a festival for the children of ״ martyrs ״ at the Presidential Headquarters, with Mahmoud Abbas in attendance. The event was broadcast to Gaza. Among the ״ martyrs ״ whose families were invited to the festival were the terrorist Hamdi Abu Diya, a released prisoner and officer in the Palestinian security forces who opened fire on Israeli soldiers in 2023, 57 and Mohammad al-Trifi, who belonged to the Islamic Jihad Movement and was shot by a sniper during clashes in Ramallah in 2014. 58 03 On the occasion of Eid al-Adha (June 2024), district governors laid wreaths on behalf of the PA Chairman, Mahmoud Abbas, at monuments and cemeteries of ״martyrs״. 59

The Governor of Jenin, Kamal Abu al Rub (in a black suit in the center), at a square with a statue of the map of "Palestine" in the background. 60

55 https://www.maf.ps/en 56 https://www.wafa.ps/pages/details/73998 57 https://www.kan.org.il/content/kan-news/defense/243151/ 58 بحضور السيد الرئيس..مؤسسة محمود عباس تقيم مهرجان أبناء الشهداء (youtube.com) 59 Governor of Tubas; Governor of Salfit; Governor of Jericho 60 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=468187295864179&set=pcb.468184662531109

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