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Monday, June 5, 2017
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Monday, June 5, 2017
Hamas lawmakers say they got salaries after fearing cutoff from Abbas
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA lawmaker from the Hamas terrorist group in the West Bank says he and his colleagues received their monthly salaries after initially fearing the payments had been halted by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
Hamas lawmaker Ayman Daraghmeh says he was told by Abbas’s government that the delay was due to a technical error.
Earlier, he said that the 47 lawmakers did not receive their June salaries and that they were told by the Finance Ministry that it was “orders from above.”
On Sunday, dozens of Hamas inmates once imprisoned by Israel said they did not receive their monthly support payment. Abbas has been trying to weaken his rival Hamas and force them to yield control of Gaza.
Abbas’s Palestinian Authority had no comment.
— AP
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