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PA: Accelerating Over The Financial Cliff
Ministries agree financial support for ex-detainees
They're already paying their employees at increasingly irregular intervals as pledges continue to be ignored, so why not add another expense?
(Ma'an) -- The Paleostinian Authority has agreed to give financial support to prisoners jugged by Israel before the Oslo Accords, an official said Thursday.

The Oslo Accords led to the creation of the Paleostinian Authority in 1994.

The Ministry of Detainee Affairs and the Finance Ministry have agreed that former detainees who were set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock prior to 1994 will receive around 600,000 shekels ($160,000), director of prisoner affairs Bassam al-Majdalawi.

The PA will continue to provide for former prisoners, al-Majdalawi said, applauding the role of PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad
...Fayyad's political agenda holds that neither violence nor peaceful negotiations have brought the Paleostinians any closer to an independent state. The alternative to both, violent negotiations, doesn't seem to be working too well, either...
in supporting ex-detainees and their families.

Around 40 percent of Paleostinian men living in the occupied territories have been jugged by Israel at some point in their lives.

A total of 3,312 Paleostinians were set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock by Israeli authorities in 2011.

Around 300 Paleostinians are currently held in administrative detention in Israel, including around 20 MPs.
Posted by: trailing wife 2012-04-15
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