Ramallah - exclusive to "Al Quds" dot com - The Ambulance and Emergency Syndicate of the Palestine Red Crescent Society, as well as the Society's management, announced before noon today, Wednesday, that an agreement had been signed between them, stipulating a halt to mutual escalatory measures, an end to the sit-in crisis, and the requirements of the Ambulance and Emergency Syndicate.

The spokesman for the Ambulance and Emergency Services Union in the Red Crescent Society, Osama Sweiti, told Al-Quds.com, “The agreement was signed at the headquarters of the General Administration of the Red Crescent Society under the auspices of the Ministry of Labor and the General Federation of Palestinian Trade Unions and Institutional Security, provided that it includes stopping escalatory measures between the two parties.” And the abolition of punitive measures, provided that the dialogue between the two parties continues to discuss some demanding issues.

The agreement included a set of items, the most important of which are: stopping all escalatory measures by guaranteeing the sponsors of the agreement and following up the dialogue, rearranging shifts for ambulance officers, confirming contract employees, and retracting all punitive measures taken regarding the conflict until today, Wednesday, in addition to forming a dialogue committee between the two parties to follow up on outstanding issues. Until the end of this year.

The two parties affirmed their keenness to promote positive action and constructive dialogue, and to strengthen the bonds of trust for the benefit of the Palestinian people and the association.

Last Sunday, the Ambulance and Emergency Services Syndicate resumed its sit-in in front of the General Administration of the Crescent Society in the city of Al-Bireh, as well as resuming its protest steps again, to demand that the Society’s management “have rights.” The union accused the Red Crescent administration of procrastinating in implementing what was previously agreed upon. Push the guild back into escalation.

The Ambulance Services Syndicate confirmed, through its spokesperson, Osama Sweiti, to Al-Quds.com, ten days ago, that it was in the process of handing over the ambulance charge to the Palestinian Presidency, in order to return the ambulance services to the one who commissioned the association to provide ambulance services in Palestine, but the step was postponed due to the presence of sessions Dialogue, while keeping this step in place according to the developments of escalation.

Sweiti stressed that the decision of the Ambulance and Emergency Services Union to hand over the ambulance covenant to the Presidency institution, comes as a response to the assignment to its owner when the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, President Yasser Arafat, in 1996, assigned the Red Crescent Society to provide ambulance service in Palestine, in order to emphasize the need for everyone to stand In fulfilling his responsibilities to provide the ambulance service to the fullest.

The union stopped the administrative disobedience step on the twenty-first of last month, in compliance with the law, after the management of the Red Crescent Society obtained an urgent decision from the Administrative Court in the Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate, to stop the implementation of the decision to declare complete and comprehensive administrative disobedience by the Ambulance and Emergency Syndicate, since The strike affects the public interest and the lives of citizens. The union stopped the hunger strike, but continued to sit inside the headquarters of the General Administration of the Red Crescent Society for about a week, until it entered into another dialogue with the management of the Red Crescent Society.

And the Union of Ambulance and Emergency Services in the Red Crescent Society confirmed that the declaration of complete and comprehensive administrative disobedience, which it started on the twentieth of this month for a day, after it was stopped by a judicial decision, as it excluded from disobedience only very urgent cases, including security incidents and injuries resulting from the occupation, and that In continuation of the announced escalation steps.

The union accuses the association’s management of refusing to discuss its demands, and its failure to abide by the terms of the agreement signed between them on May 24, 2022, noting that a dialogue session was held on the eighth of this month, in which a solution to the conflict was not reached and the dialogue failed, which forced it to return to the escalatory steps again.

And the official spokesman for the Red Crescent Society, Mamoun Al-Abbasi, confirmed to Al-Quds.com earlier, that “there are some issues that were agreed upon, and controversial issues remained, and we did not reach a dead end in which escalatory measures were announced, as some issues need discussion and dialogue.” enough."

The Ambulance and Emergency Services Syndicate is calling for several union issues, the reopening of reduced ambulance and emergency centers, the provision of ambulances as was the case before 2018, the abolition of all repressive measures, and the abolition of leave, dismissal and transportation.

The Syndicate of Ambulance and Emergency Services carried out an open sit-in on the day of the signing of the last agreement, inside the general headquarters of the Crescent Society, after an administrative disobedience, and refraining from providing ambulance services, for two days.