Israel deducts Palestinian money over prisoner pay
Israel said Sunday it would withhold millions more dollars worth of tax money it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority, saying the amount equals payment made to families of Palestinian attackers. Palestinian official media denounced the move as a “new theft,” but the Israeli defence ministry called it a “freeze”. “The security cabinet voted in favour of Defence Minister Naftali Bennett’s request to freeze 150 million shekels in taxes paid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) (around $43 million),” the defence ministry said in a statement. Israel collects around $190 million a month in customs duties levied on goods destined for Palestinian markets that transit through Israeli ports, and then it transfers the money to the PA.
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