Government steps in the right direction
By Ayman Tayseer Dalloul
Palestinian writer and journalist
Despite the financial hardship and the many problems and files pending on its offices for years, However, it has been clear for several months that the government committee tasked with managing the burdens of the besieged Gaza Strip, which faces sanctions for its honor by the Palestinian Authority, is taking confident steps one after another in an attempt to move the cards on the table and look for gaps in these thick walls around Gaza and its people.
Once it moves towards its employees who have been paid from their salaries for years, It is disbursed to poor or needy groups who have not been able to find someone to meet their needs, At other times, it is moving towards finding solutions to crises that needed bold decisions by the government leadership in order to find appropriate solutions to them and devote themselves to the concerns and problems that the Palestinian citizen has been living for years.
The latest steps taken by the government administration is to exempt imported basic commodities from taxes, and thus it removes the reasons for lamentation by some traders as a result of the global rise in prices, It was even advanced by announcing that it would bear the burden of raising cooking gas to keep the price the same.
It is true that what the government administration has done is the duty of any government entity towards its citizens, But after this situation has been absent from the performance of government work in our Arab countries for decades, And the government is looking for its pockets and inflating them, The step of the government administration in Gaza is one step ahead of the ocean. We should thank her very much for returning to the real place where government should be for her people. The people are the task and role of the government to relieve them and seek their well-being and happiness. And not the other way around.
Follow up on government steps in the right direction
The government administration in Gaza could have turned its back on the people and justified that the taxes it collects go to its employees and its monthly expenses. But with its steps, it preferred these people to a segment of it, represented by the employees who are now looking for other incomes paid by the people to the government budget and they are happy. Just as happens in the issue of reductions that targeted car licenses, personal licenses, etc.
The step taken by the leadership of government action in the right direction, Rather, it is an advanced step in the face of high prices sweeping the global markets, and we have not heard to confront those prices real steps from neighboring governments. Let us say that the steps taken in Gaza were taken by a government administration that does not have surplus money or oil wells. Rather, its balance is debts in the millions to employees and others, Nevertheless, she decided to go down to the side of the people.
The courageous and balanced steps of the government leadership prompt us to ask it to open many outstanding files for citizens. The problems are many and the worries are many, We hope that they will search for solutions to our problems in order to devote themselves to confronting the arrogance and arrogance of the occupation against our national constants. The issue of electricity generators is not a constant, and like many files that are still pending.
