Palestinians receive gov't salaries
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Palestinian government employees loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday stood in long lines outside banks in Hamas-ruled Gaza to collect their first full salaries in 13 months.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel's Cabinet approved compensation yesterday for settlers who will be uprooted by Ariel Sharon's program to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank, handing the prime minister an important victory two days before a showdown in parliament over the pullout.
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The Western-backed government of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas estimates that it will need at least $1.62 billion in donor assistance per year to close its soaring budget gap, the World Bank said.
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Hope for progress toward peace in the region is tempered by a Palestinian power vacuum.
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Arabs in northern Israel say nearby Jewish towns will receive most of the $1 billion in compensation.
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The Palestinian president symbolized his people&#39;s desire for a homeland, but his corrupt rule and limited vision frustrated their drive for statehood.
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Hundreds of security men from President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement held a rally in Gaza on Wednesday to demand the government he set up in the occupied West Bank pay their salaries.
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One Palestinian is killed and several are injured in clashes between unpaid police and forces loyal to Hamas.
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OSLO, Dec 8  - The United States will give the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority 20 million dollars in aid to resolve its immediate budget woes, US Assistant Secretary of State William Burns said on Wednesday.
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Unpaid employees in the Palestinian prime minister's office on Wednesday joined a widespread strike that is challenging the survival of the Hamas-led government.
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The government expressed its disappointment Thursday after Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas called a state of emergency and sacked the Hamas-led unity government in response to violence in the Gaza Strip.
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Thousands of Palestinian civil servants strike over the failure of the Hamas-led government to pay wages.
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Qatar will pay the salaries of 40,000 Palestinian education workers for several months, says the Palestinian PM.
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Despite an agreement for a Palestinian unity government, the question of who gets to run internal security is still a stumbling block
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Israel is prepared to transfer withheld tax revenues to the Palestinians through a mechanism that guarantees none of the money will go to the Hamas-led government or militants, officials said on Thursday.
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The State Department is considering supporting the Palestinian Authority in its quest to avoid paying hundreds of millions of dollars in judgments won by American victims of Palestinian terrorist attacks in Israel, according to Palestinian officials and defense lawyers involved in the cases.
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A Palestinian official said Sunday he expects the successors of Yasser Arafat to make concessions to Israel on issues the late leader had refused to consider.