Fatah official: PA still active in Gaza

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00:00Is Fatah and the rest of the PA ready to step in in terms of running Gaza when the Israeli military pulls out?

00:10Because, of course, disarming and dismantling Hamas is one of the key conditions that Israel has put on the table.

00:16What I'm asking you is, can you and can the PA step in and fill the void?

00:21Well, I have to tell you, the PA is still there, actually.

00:27After the coup of 2007 by Hamas, the PA did not leave everything.

00:32They are still paying for the education, still paying for the health system, still paying for their employees.

00:37And there are tens of thousands of employees in Gaza and teachers and doctors.

00:42They all belong to the Palestinian Authority.

00:45The prisons is, you know, vanished because of the coup.

00:49The security forces are vanished because of the coup.

00:51But the people in Palestine, of Palestine, in Gaza, and in the West Bank, actually go back to the Palestinian Authority.

00:58We have to, you know, at this, the fact that PA is the legitimate authority.

01:04And going back to Gaza is not actually something that is a gift.

01:09It is a demand by the people.

01:11It's a national demand that the PA return to Gaza.

01:14That means of war, I'm not.

01:17I'm going to be waiting for the people that were a little bit of war.

01:18We also have to, you know, come on in the lobby.

01:22We are not really fighting for the people that were not trying to fight for the people to fight for them.

01:26And I'm not really fighting for the people that were just protesting.

01:28It's a national demand for the people that were not trying to fight for the people who had just been attacked.

01:31And that's something we know.

01:33And that's true.

01:35We are now looking for the residents' project.

01:37And so, we have to consider people who have been trying to live in the hospital,

01:40and so I'm not just really getting out of that.