Ramallah - exclusive to "Al Quds" dot com - The Union of Ambulance and Emergency Services in the Palestine Red Crescent Society confirmed, today, Saturday, its resumption of its sit-in in front of the headquarters of the General Administration of the Crescent Society in the city of Al-Bireh, as well as the resumption of its protest steps again, to demand the management of the Society for its "rights." Since the start of tomorrow, Sunday.

A spokesman for the Union of Ambulance and Emergency Services in the Red Crescent Society, Osama Sweiti, told Al-Quds.com, “The union suspended its protest steps and sit-in, and held dialogue sessions with the Society’s administration, and the Society’s management refused to sit in another dialogue session today, as the Syndicate saw the existence of procrastination.” By the association’s management to give the union its rights, which prompted us to go back to the escalation.”

Sweiti confirmed that the union will return to resume the sit-in in front of the headquarters of the Crescent administration, and will study possible escalatory steps, and perhaps announce them during the sit-in, and all options will be open, including the option of handing over the ambulance charge to the Presidency.

Sweiti said, "The management of the Red Crescent Society does not realize the seriousness of what is happening, and we have seen it procrastinating, after promises to implement what was agreed upon, which prompted the union to return to escalation."

The Ambulance and Emergency Union confirmed in a statement, this evening, Saturday, that it had responded to the invitation of the President of the Palestine Red Crescent Society, through his office manager, to sit down in order to contain the crisis and end the existing conflict in a way that meets the rights and demands of ambulance and emergency workers within the directives of the President of the Society, Dr. Younis Al-Khatib. .

And the union continued, "After all that the union has done, the association has not even committed itself to setting a date for a dialogue session or an assurance from it to stop its arbitrary measures taken against employees or to meet any of the union's demands."

The union confirmed the resumption of the escalation program and the completion of its steps, starting with the central sit-in for all ambulance officers with their families at the headquarters of the Red Crescent Society tomorrow, Sunday, while the administrative body of the Ambulance and Emergency Services Union confirmed that it is one of the most important trade unions operating under the umbrella of the General Federation of Palestinian Trade Unions, and that its reference It belongs to the General Secretariat of the Union, and it adheres to its directives to serve the interests of workers, preserve their rights and meet their demands.

Last Sunday, the Ambulance Services Union confirmed through its spokesman, Osama Sweiti, to Al-Quds.com, that it is 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 dialogue sessions. .

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 this 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.

The Syndicate 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 suspended by a judicial decision, as it excluded from disobedience only very urgent cases, including security incidents and injuries resulting from the occupation, as a continuation. announced escalatory 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 no solution was reached to the conflict and the failure of the dialogue, which forced it to return again to the escalatory steps, However, 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 are 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.