The US yesterday strongly criticized the Netanyahu government’s decision to transfer funds meant for Palestine to “families of victims of terrorism”, calling it “incredibly wrong”. “We think this is an incredibly wrong decision by this minister,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told the press. He was reacting to a decision by a far-right cabinet minister in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, announced Thursday, to sign an executive order transferring “approximately $35 million” of frozen Palestinian Authority funds “to victims of terrorism” in Israel. “The Palestinian Authority encourages and favors terrorism by paying families of terrorists, jailed and released prisoners,” the far-right finance minister said, justifying the decision. For Washington, “these types of measures on the part of the Israeli government raise the risk of destabilizing the West Bank and further undermining Israel’s own security”, while the war in the Gaza Strip has further escalated the violence in possession […]
Source: News Beast
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