Majida al-Masri
Minister of Social Affairs of the Palestinian National Authority
Assumed office
May 12, 2009
Member of the Palestinian Legislative Council
ConstituencyNablus
Personal details
Political partyDemocratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
OccupationPolitician

Majida al-Masri (Arabic: ماجدة المصري, full name: ماجدة محمد حمدي راغب المصري) is a Palestinian politician. She is a politburo member of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine.[1][2] and a leader of the DFLP in the Nablus area.[3]

In the 2006 parliamentary election, al-Masri was a candidate in the Nablus electoral district. She got 14,568 votes, but was not elected.[3][4] On May 12, 2009, she was appointed Minister of Social Affairs in the Palestinian National Authority's caretaker cabinet of Salam Fayyad. She was the first minister in the PNA to condemn Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's decision to delay the United Nations Human Rights Council vote on the Goldstone report which condemned Israel for its actions in the Gaza War in January 2009. She said the government's decision "gave Israeli war criminals the opportunity to avoid the report's repercussions," "contradicts the Palestinian national consensus," and "angered friends and allies of the Palestinian people."[1]

References

  1. ^ a b PA minister 'resigns in protest of UN move' Archived 2014-07-26 at the Wayback Machine Ma'an News Agency. 2009-10-05.
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-08-07. Retrieved 2016-01-13.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ a b "Challenge-Magazine | Jonathan Ben Efrat | Nablus: Fury and Apathy". Archived from the original on 2016-09-18. Retrieved 2009-05-12.
  4. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-01-27. Retrieved 2009-05-12.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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