Senior Palestinian officials are harshly criticizing the decision by the Israeli security cabinet to implement a law deducting tax revenues otherwise sent to the Palestinian Authority, over its payments to terrorists and their families.
“Deducting funds from the Palestinian treasury is a form of collective punishment imposed by Israel,” he says according to the Kan public broadcaster. “This could jeopardize the Palestinian economy and undermine the PA’s ability to pay its salaries on time.”
Senior Palestine Liberation Organization official Ahmed Majdalani accuses Israel and the US, which has cut hundreds of millions of dollars in Palestinian aid, of an attempt at blackmail.
“The occupation government is seeking to destroy the national authority in partnership with the US administration of Donald Trump,” Majdalani says in a statement.
Other PA officials tell Channel 13 that PA President Mahmoud Abbas may refuse to accept all of the tax revenue to protest the Israeli move.
The officials say the move is likely to damage Israeli-Palestinian security cooperation.
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