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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 534

Palestinian tax revenues

Left image: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich during the weekly cabinet meeting at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on January 7, 2024. Right image: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, left, poses with newly appointed PA Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa, in Ramallah on March 14, 2024. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool via AP; PPO / AFP)
January 13, 2025, 12:54 am
Israel, PA ink deal to release $500 million in withheld Palestinian tax revenues
Funds will be used to pay off debt to Israel Electric Corporation; both sides declare victory after agreeing to mechanism that US hopes can be used for release of additional money
By Jacob Magid
Emergency services at the scene of a suicide bombing inside Jerusalem's Sbarro restaurant, Thursday, August 9, 2001. Sixteen people were killed, and 130 injured. (Courtesy)
November 26, 2024, 4:33 pm
Court puts PA on the hook for huge sums in compensation, damages for terror attacks
Jerusalem District Court has ruled PA must pay NIS 46 million to heirs of 3 Sbarro bombing victims due to stipends it pays to terrorists; and hundreds more suits have been filed
By Jeremy Sharon
New buildings at a construction site in the West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim, February 29, 2024. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
June 17, 2024, 10:55 am
Security cabinet mulls penalizing Palestinian Authority for statehood moves
Decision pushed off as defense minister, attorney general ask for more time to study proposals; Smotrich said to agree to release some tax revenues if settlements boosted
By ToI Staff
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in Jerusalem, April 21, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 25, 2024, 3:19 pm
Smotrich to PM: Bring down PA, annex West Bank, if it keeps seeking UN state, war arrests
Far-right finance minister vows to halt tax transfers to Palestinian Authority if it wins unilateral statehood or ICC arrest warrants against Israeli leaders, soldiers for war in Gaza
By ToI Staff
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh meets at the headquarters of the Munich Security Conference with Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide on February 18, 2024. (Wafa)
February 19, 2024, 5:40 am
Ending standoff, Norway accepts Israeli framework for transferring tax revenues to PA
Scheme will give Smotrich control over when a quarter of the funds are released by Oslo to Ramallah, but sides appear to have heeded pressure from US, which feared PA’s collapse
By Jacob Magid
Palestinian shops are closed during a general strike in solidarity with Gaza at the commercial center of the West Bank city of Ramallah, December 11, 2023. Arabic reads 'A new dawn in the life of the Arab nation.' (Nasser Nasser/AP)
February 8, 2024, 12:22 pm
Israel talks steps to help West Bank economy in covert meeting with PA officials
Representatives convene in Tel Aviv to discuss easing tensions ahead of Ramadan; Abbas meets US top envoy Blinken, said planning summit with Hamas leaders in Qatar
By Jacob Magid
File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich during the weekly cabinet meeting at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, January 7, 2024. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool via AP)
January 21, 2024, 5:09 pm
Ministers approve letting Norway hold tax money earmarked for Palestinian Authority
In apparent compromise following prolonged division on matter, cabinet okays arrangement that will see Oslo transfer funds to PA only with Jerusalem’s approval; Ben Gvir slams move
By Sam Sokol, Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
An Israeli mobile artillery unit fires a shell from southern Israel towards the Gaza Strip, in a position near the Israel-Gaza border on Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023. (AP/Leo Correa)
December 30, 2023, 2:46 am
US bypasses congressional review for month’s second fast-tracked arms sale to Israel
Move suggests that growing discomfort in Washington with Israel’s prosecution of war not yet influencing its near-daily supply of weapons used by the IDF in Gaza
By Jacob Magid and Agencies
US President Joe Biden, left, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, to discuss the the war between Israel and Hamas, in Tel Aviv, on October 18, 2023. (Miriam Alster/ Pool Photo via AP)
December 29, 2023, 2:55 am
In ‘frustrating’ call, Biden said to tell PM to resolve Palestinian tax funds issue
US president reportedly snaps at Netanyahu to deal with his coalition hardliners, and transfer to PA collected taxes that have been withheld since October 7
By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
Finance minister and head of the Religious Zionist party, Bezalel Smotrich leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, December 18, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)
December 18, 2023, 11:12 pm
Amid reported plan to funnel PA money into Gaza, Smotrich insists: ‘Not one shekel’
Hard-right finance minister intimates he is willing to resign if tax transfers sent to Strip; Ben Gvir: Israel should be executing Hamas prisoners if hostages not released
By Jeremy Sharon and Sam Sokol
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Amman, Jordan, October 17, 2023. (AP Photo/ Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)
November 3, 2023, 1:15 am
Ministers vote to transfer tax funds to PA, subtracting money designated for Gaza
Security cabinet says it has ‘cut all contact’ with Gaza, vows to return detained laborers back to Strip; Washington had pushed Israel to release funds after Smotrich freeze
By Amy Spiro and Michael Bachner
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, left, talks with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant during a discussion and vote on the state budget at the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem, May 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 2, 2023, 5:14 pm
Ministers set to vote on PA tax transfers amid mounting opposition to Smotrich freeze
Finance minister accused of seeking to ‘inflame’ West Bank by withholding millions, as Netanyahu, Gallant reportedly back handing over cash to help avert escalation of violence
By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff
A worker on a lift adjusts the EU flags in front of EU headquarters in Brussels, on June 23, 2016. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)
February 24, 2022, 1:16 pm
Almost all European aid to the PA held up as officials discuss reform of textbooks
The EU is Ramallah’s single largest donor, but has sent almost no aid since 2020; Brussels has repeatedly raised concerns of incitement in Palestinian education
By Aaron Boxerman
FILE: Palestinians take part in a demonstration in support of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, in Gaza City, on April 17, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)
December 2, 2020, 4:58 pm
Israel transfers billions to Ramallah, does not deduct for terror stipends
Israel hands over full NIS 3.7 billion in tax revenues it collects on Palestinians’ behalf, despite law requiring withholding amount PA pays security detainees and families
By Aaron Boxerman
Relatives of Palestinians held in Israeli jails hold their portraits during a protest to mark "Prisoners Day" in the West Bank city of Ramallah, April 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
November 30, 2020, 1:43 am
Cabinet okays tax revenues transfer to Abbas, holds back some for ‘pay to slay’
Ministers decide to withhold some NIS 600 million out of 2.4 billion total to compensate for PA payments to terrorists and their families
By ToI Staff
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