Palestinian civil servants receive first salaries in 17 months
Palestinian government workers received full salaries for the first time in seventeen months. Palestinian President Mahmound Abbas is refusing to pay salaries to nineteen thousand government workers allied with Hamas.
Nearly one-hundred forty-thousand employees have been denied wages since the U.S. and Israel imposed an international boycott on the democratically-elected Hamas-led government. Israel began releasing some of the seized Palestinian tax revenue to Abbas last week.
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