The government has decided that local councils in the Gaza envelope area where Hamas carried out its October 7 massacres will not be required to collect arnona (local council property tax) from residents, Channel 12 reports.
This follows a week after local council chiefs in the area protested that they were being ordered to continue to collect the tax even though hundreds of their residents had been slaughtered, many of their homes had been destroyed, tens of thousands had been ordered to evacuate, and their communities were closed military zones.
The exemption from the tax will be in force for the next year at least, the TV report says.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to meet tomorrow with local council leaders in the area for the first time since the October 7 Hamas massacres.
Some of the local council leaders are “not sure” they will attend the meeting, Channel 12 reports.
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