Khaberni - In an unprecedented letter sent by Fatah Central Committee member Tawfiq Al-Tirawi to Mahmoud Abbas, serious allegations concerning rampant corruption, plundering, and intimidation within the authorities' institutions were unleashed.
He confirmed that these practices have affected various official sectors, leading to organized land and property theft, both public and private, amid a lack of accountability and a decline in the judiciary's role.
Al-Tirawi threatened to reveal all documented files and cases, fully detailed with names, to the Palestinian public, via local and international media, aiming to open a path for a popular, national, and ethical tribunal against the corrupt. This, he described, comes in the face of the judiciary's failure to fulfill its national and constitutional duties. He held President Abbas responsible for urgently intervening to stop the entrenchment of corruption and to protect public rights.
Here is the text of the letter:
Open letter to Brother President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen)
"For many years, I have repeatedly and openly addressed you, urging your intervention in various corruption and injustice issues that pervade our institutions, out of concern for citizens' rights and the protection of public rights. Some of these issues were forwarded by you to prime ministers, and some were referred to the public prosecutor. Unfortunately, the result remained the same: the absence of any real effect to protect the people or limit this dangerous lawlessness."
"The hands of the influential and the thieves have stretched to reach various parts of the authority, across government and the judiciary, until the corruption system operated with confidence and impunity, evolving to dangerous levels of threat and intimidation. It reached the extent of threatening senior employees and experts, scientists who had prepared documented reports proving the involvement of influential parties in land and property theft, in criminal behavior that struck at the core of national dignity and ethical values."
In light of this reality, I bitterly ask:
In what country do we live?
And did our people offer all these sacrifices, from martyrs and prisoners to the wounded, to reach a stage where thieves and land brokers rampage through our homeland without any deterrent or accountability?
After numerous letters and notes that I have raised to you about the collusion of some senior officials, politicization of the judiciary, and extensive discussions with my colleagues in the Central Committee and Fatah cadres across regions, who are no longer able to tolerate this moral and ethical collapse inside institutions that should be the guardians of national rights, I find it imperative to address you publicly today, via the media and social media platforms.
I do this convinced that some deliberately obscure the truth from you or present a truncated version of what is happening, with motives that do not serve the national interest. And although I believe that some of the truth has been conveyed to you, the failure in fully disclosing it without equivocation remains a responsibility that cannot be ignored.
In the face of the serious collapse of the role of the judiciary, the stalling of the accountability and control system, and the transformation of some institutions that should protect public rights into a shield for the corrupt, I clearly declare that the era of silence has ended. If this situation continues, I will not hesitate to reveal all documented files and cases, completely and with all details, to the Palestinian public and through local and international media, to initiate a process of popular, national, and ethical trial of the corrupt, amidst the absence of the judiciary from fulfilling its national and constitutional duties.
And Fatah, the mass movement that arose to claim the rights of the Palestinian people and preserve their national dignity, cannot accept the continuation of this reality, neither remain silent on some corrupt individuals, nor be a false witness to the tampering with public rights or covering up those who have harmed the sacrifices of our people and our martyrs and prisoners.
Hiding the truth is a crime, covering up corruption is treason, and exposing it is a national duty that cannot be delayed.
Palestine, in light of the massacres, genocide in Gaza, invasions, torment, destruction, and daily displacement in the West Bank, deserves us rising to the level of national and historical responsibility.
Being silent today, or merely managing crises, is no less dangerous than the crime itself.
And God is witness to what I say.
Tawfiq Al-Tirawi
Member of the Fatah Central Committee
