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Palestinian Authority calls Israel’s withholding of funds ‘theft’

File – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas – Daina Le Lardic/European Parliam / DPA – File

The Palestinian Authority has branded as “theft” the decision announced by Israel on the withholding of some 170 million euros intended for the Palestinian Authority to compensate for the money it has given to “terrorists and their families last year.”

The spokesman for the Presidency of the Palestinian Authority, Nabil abu Rudeina, has pointed out that it is a “dangerous decision” and has reiterated that “the rights of the prisoners will be guaranteed despite the pressure.”

Thus, he has emphasized that the Palestinian authorities “will not allow a penny to be taken from the money of the Palestinian prisoners who fought for freedom, Jerusalem and the creation of an independent Palestinian state,” according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. .

Abu Rudeina has also argued that the Israeli decision “is contrary to international law” and has asked the international community to “pressure” the Israeli authorities to “end and cancel this type of provocative measures.”

In this sense, he pointed out that “the Government of Israel must review its positions and decisions to prevent the situation from reaching a dangerous point”, amid the rise in tensions in recent months and in the absence of a dialogue process of peace.

Israel acts as a tax collector on behalf of the Palestinian government, which it has penalized on several occasions for giving part of that money as a stipend to the families of individuals that the Hebrew state considers to be terrorist elements.

Last year, Israel denounced that the Palestinian Authority had allocated 597 million to “indirect support for terrorism during 2020”, according to the newspaper ‘The Times of Israel’.

These payments can be suspended under the protection of a law approved in 2018 that has already been used on previous occasions to withhold funds that correspond to the Palestinian Authority, which was already harshly criticized at the time by the Palestinian Government.

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