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Abbas said to cut salaries of 37 Hamas lawmakers
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe Palestinian Authority cut the salaries of 37 Hamas lawmakers as part of a series of measures to get the terror group to cede control of the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian media reports.
The PA finance ministry earlier informed MPs from Hamas’s Change and Reform bloc who are living in the West Bank they would no longer receive their salaries, First Deputy Speaker of the Palestinian parliament Ahmed Bahar tells the news site Safa.
Bahar calls the measure a “declaration of war” against the Palestinian Legislative Council.
— Dov Lieber
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