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Tuesday, June 30, 2015
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Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Hamas closes offices of main cellular company in Gaza
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleHamas closes the main office of Jawwal, the main cellular operator in the Gaza Strip, because the company pays taxes to the treasury in Ramallah and not to the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip, Israel Radio reports.
According to the report, Hamas security officials were deployed to the entrance of the main branch of Jawwal in Gaza City which carried a sign on the gate stating: “Closed by orders of the Attorney General.”
The move is apparently intended to pressure the Palestinian Authority following rising tensions between the PA and Hamas over, among other issues, the dire financial straits in which Hamas finds itself one year after its war against Israel, and with efforts to rebuild the Gaza Strip moving slowly.
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