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| Olmert OKs cash transfer to Gaza |
| 2009-02-05 |
| ISRAELI Prime Minister Ehud Olmert ordered the transfer of 175 million shekels ($68.11 million) to Gaza today to go towards paying civil servants' salaries, a senior government official said. "Despite the state of war, Israel is obliged under the Paris agreement to transfer money into Gaza," the official quoted Mr Olmert as saying in reference to an accord under which Israel collects taxes on behalf of the Palestinian Authority. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Defence Minister Ehud Barak opposed the decision, the official said. Israel generally prohibits the transfer of cash to the Gaza Strip under a tight embargo it imposed after the Islamist Hamas movement seized power there in June 2007. On Tuesday Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad urged Israel to allow cash into the besieged Gaza Strip to ease the territory's liquidity crisis. The crisis has worsened since Israel launched a 22-day military onslaught against Gaza on December 27. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #2 He'll be happy in his forced retirement, then, knowing that he personally destroyed Kadima. What a legacy he has made! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-02-05 21:56 |
| #1 He really hates Livni. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-02-05 20:22 |