By Xinhua
Ramallah : The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) started a joint program to rehabilitate fighters granted amnesty from Israel,UNDP office in West Bank said on Monday.
The UNDP media office in the West Bank conformed in a telephone call with Xinhua that such a project has been recently drafted in coordination with the ministry of interior in Salam Fayyad caretaker government.
The office said that the plan is new and it has not been executed yet, adding that “once it is implemented, more details would be provided to the media.”
“New Life” program aims at training the former wanted militants to integrate them in social activities to ensure they will not return to military activities, Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth daily had said earlier Monday.
Palestinian Interior Minister, Abdel Razaq al-Yehia, has ordered West Bank governors to form committee to liaise the training with UNDP experts who support the project in partnership with the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR).
According to the report, the experts will meet every trainee and his family to decide on his sort of training after evaluation.
The EU is the main financier of the project.A big number of the previous fighters will also join the PNA security services, the newspaper added.
Israel has granted amnesty to some 200 militants from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement as part of bids to strengthen the moderate leader whose forces have lost Gaza Strip in June for rival Hamas Islamists.