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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly via video at United Nations headquarters, September 25, 2025. (AP/Angelina Katsanis)
October 1, 2025, 9:33 pm
Trump peace plan charts tough course for Palestinian Authority’s return to Gaza
Palestinian analyst says US ceasefire proposal sets ‘many minefields’ and that ‘this plan is not good for the PA’; Ramallah hoping for bailout from Arab allies amid economic crisis
By Ali Sawafta and Suleiman Al-Khalidi
Illustrative: Power lines above the town of Bnei Re'em on April 26 2010. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
September 6, 2023, 3:41 pm
Smotrich says Israel to withhold millions from PA to repay electricity debt
Finance minister will deduct money from monthly transfers to Ramallah; Palestinian PM pans ‘declaration of financial war and a recipe for explosion’
By Gianluca Pacchiani
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich takes part in a march to the illegal West Bank outpost of Evyatar, near the West Bank city of Nablus, during the Passover holiday, April 10, 2023. (Sraya Diamant/ Flash90/ File)
August 7, 2023, 11:57 pm
Smotrich said refusing to approve economic measures to assist Palestinian Authority
Far-right finance minister’s opposition may prevent Israel from fulfilling promise made to US government
By ToI Staff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas arrives to head the Palestinian leadership meeting at his headquarters, in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 5, 2020. (AP/Nasser Nasser, Pool)
May 11, 2020, 8:24 pm
Under new deal, Israel to loan PA up to NIS 800m to cover virus losses
During four month period, Jerusalem will top off sum of tax revenues it sends to PA to NIS 500 million, if collected amount falls below that total
By Jacob Magid
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 7, 2020. (Nasser Nasser/Pool/AFP)
May 9, 2020, 7:16 pm
Israel said set to transfer NIS 800m loan to PA to offset coronavirus losses
Finance Minister Kahlon reportedly says he was directed by PM to make fund available to cash-strapped Palestinian Authority; right-wing group decries ‘unthinkable’ transfer
By ToI Staff
File: US special envoy Jason Greenblatt (C) shakes hands with Palestinian Water Authority chairman Mazen Ghunaim during the launch of a project to improve access to wastewater treatment and water for Palestinian farmers, on October 15, 2017, in the city of Jericho, in the West Bank. (AFP/Jaafar Ashtiyeh)
June 6, 2019, 1:33 am
US envoy tells Palestinian leaders dire situation is of their own making
‘Time for PA to step-up & take responsibility,’ says Greenblatt, as Palestinian PM warns of collapse within 2 months amid withdrawal of US aid and financial spat with Israel
By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, April 16, 2019. (AP Photo/ Nasser Nasser)
June 5, 2019, 1:09 pm
PA premier calls Trump plan ‘blackmail,’ says Bahrain workshop to be ‘born dead’
Mohammad Shtayyeh claims Palestinians weren’t invited to Manama but wouldn’t attend anyway; warns PA could collapse within 2 months if financial spat with Israel not resolved
By Michael Bachner
PA President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during the weekly cabinet meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on April 29, 2019. (Majdi Mohammed / POOL / AFP)
April 30, 2019, 11:03 am
Jordan, Egypt said to mediate between Israel and PA over tax transfer standoff
PA official reportedly says there will be no compromise on issue; US unable to resolve crisis because Ramallah cut off contact with Washington
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, in Jerusalem, on March 11, 2019. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)
April 28, 2019, 10:49 pm
Netanyahu, Kahlon reportedly plan for possible financial collapse of PA
Israel has reportedly tried to transfer $182 million to Palestinians, but was rebuffed; finance minister said to meet with PA official to discuss issue
By ToI Staff
French President Emmanuel Macron (L) shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, upon his arrival at the Elysee Palace in Paris, on December 10, 2017. (AFP PHOTO/ Ludovic MARIN/File)
April 21, 2019, 9:44 pm
Israel said to reject ‘immoral’ French demand to resume tax transfers to Abbas
Paris implores Israel to renew payments — frozen because of PA’s funding for families of terrorists; Jerusalem replies that to do so would breach Europe’s anti-terror principles
By ToI Staff
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh (3rd-R) waves upon his arrival at a rally marking the 31st anniversary of the terror group's founding, in Gaza City December 16, 2018. (Said Khatib/ AFP)
April 16, 2019, 11:53 pm
Senior PA official said to warn Hamas plotting coup against Abbas in West Bank
Gaza-based terror group planning to exploit salary cuts for Palestinian Authority party members and security forces, high-ranking party member reportedly says
By ToI Staff
Two Palestinian vendors wait for customers in front of their tobacco shop, in an alley of the Dheisheh Palestinian refugee camp, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, on Tuedsay, May 20, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
September 15, 2016, 4:54 pm
PA on brink of financial crisis if donors don’t step in, report warns
World Bank calls for Israel to ease West Bank restrictions to allow Palestinian economy to flourish, says less than half of the billions pledged to Gaza have reached battered enclave
By ToI Staff and AFP
A Palestinian man working in a power plant in Gaza City, April 14, 2008. (Abed Rahim Khatib /Flash90)
April 12, 2016, 8:57 pm
Gaza’s sole power plant shuts down over fuel shortage
Amid ongoing tensions, tax dispute between Hamas and Palestinian Authority leaves strip’s 1.8 million residents in the dark
By AFP and ToI Staff
Illustrative image of an Israel Electric Corporation worker raised by a crane to a utility pole to perform maintenance works, outside Jerusalem on June 10, 2013. (Flash 90)
April 6, 2016, 11:30 am
Electric company reaches deal with Palestinians to halt cuts
PA to hand over NIS 20 million toward NIS 1.7 billion chit, buying week’s respite to negotiate a final settlement
By ToI Staff
Palestinians walk by a wall painted in honor of festivities marking 10,000 years of the West Bank city of Jericho. Jericho is believed to be one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities of the world. October 10, 2010. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
April 3, 2016, 7:21 pm
Israel returns power to Jericho despite debt
Electric corporation owed some 1.7 billion shekels ($450 million) by private company JDECO and the Palestinian Authority
By AFP
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