His government Israel suspends until further notice the transfer of millions to the Palestinian Authority, based in the West Bank, accusing it of “supporting” its attack Hamas against sectors of Israeli territory on October 7, the deadliest by the Jewish state. Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced via X (the former Twitter) that due to the “Palestine Authority’s support for the massacres of Hamas”, he asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to consider in the cabinet whether the money transfers will continue and added “until to make a decision, we stop them payments».
He accompanied the post with a montage of statements by officials of the Fatah party of Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, who characterize the attack by Hamas as part of the “armed resistance” against the Israeli occupation, reports APE-MPE.
Israel collects taxes, fees and duties on behalf of the Palestinian Authority. Transfer to her coffers somewhere 150 million euros per monthaccording to the latest available data.
The Palestinian Authority has not yet reacted to Mr. Smotrich’s decision.
President Mahmoud Abbas said immediately after the attack that the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, which rules in Gaza Stripdoes not represent the Palestinian people, rejected the killing of civilians and called on all parties to release hostages and prisoners respectively.
After the attack by Hamas – which Israel, the US and the EU describe as a “terrorist” organization – with more than 1,400 dead, the majority of them civilians, the Israeli army has been relentlessly shelling the Gaza Strip with a toll so far of exceed 8,300 dead, also in the majority of them civilians, according to the most recent data of the Ministry of Health.
Source: News Beast
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