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Hamas shuts offices of Gaza's sole cellular operator
[Al Ahram] The Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-appointed attorney general in the Gazoo Strip shut down the offices of the territory's only mobile-phone provider on Tuesday, saying the company, Jawwal, had not paid its taxes.

Police were deployed outside the firm's headquarters and posters were put up on the walls outside reading: "Jawwal Company is closed upon the attorney general's order."

Jawwal is a subsidiary of the Paleostine Telecommunications Co. (PalTel), the largest listed company in the Paleostinian territories. It is the sole provider of mobile phone services in Gazoo, with around 1.3 million clients.

While the offices were closed, Gazooks were still able to use their mobile phones and access the Internet on Tuesday, although it was not clear how long that would continue.

Executives at PalTel rejected the attorney general's accusations, saying all relevant taxes had been paid to the Paleostinian Authority in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where the company is registered and based.

PalTel Chief Executive Ammar Aker said it was not possible to separate tax filings between the two territories.

To do so would fuel division and "may expose national economic institutions that work within an international system to questions and sanctions that may result in grave damage," he said, referring to outside pressure on Hamas, which is listed as a terrorist group by the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
and the United States.

While the Paleostinian Authority, led by President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
, is nominally in charge of Gazoo and the West Bank, Hamas has controlled Gazoo since 2007 and appoints some of its own officials, including the attorney general.

There is a separate attorney general in the West Bank.

PalTel, which also provides fixed-line and Internet access in Gazoo, said it was closing its offices there in solidarity.

Posted by: Fred 2015-07-01
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