| Submit your comments on this article |
| Israel-Palestine-Jordan |
| Hamas begins paying workers backdated pay |
| 2014-09-12 |
| [ARABNEWS] Paleostinian movement Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, on Thursday began paying a months-long backlog of salaries to more than 40,000 of its employees in the Gazoo Strip, the Finance Ministry announced. Hamas, which formally governed Gazoo until early June, had been unable to pay many of its employees from October 2013 due to a biting financial crisis caused by Egypt's closure of cross-border tunnels through which most of movement's financial support was delivered. Other employees had received only a partial salary. It was the first time in months the employees had been paid, with workers each receiving between 1,000-4,500 shekels ($276-$1,240/215-960 euros), depending on their pay grade, the ministry said. Although the Hamas government technically stood down on June 2, handing over power to a Ramallah-based government of national consensus, it has remained the de facto power in Gazoo. Hamas officials, who wished to remain anonymous, told AFP it was able to begin paying the backlog due to tax monies it had collected, enabling it to cover partial payment of all salaries from October through to May. Political analyst Mukhaimer Abu Saada said funds were also likely to have come from aid pouring into Gazoo during and after a bloody 50-day conflict with Israel that ended August 26, as well as from friendly donors such as Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Livia grabbed for Jane's hair to make her point. Jane elbowed her in the face in rebuttal... a Hamas big turban says the group is willing to talk directly to Israel, reversing a previous ban. In an interview with Al Quds TV to be broadcast later Thursday, Hamas No. 2 Musa Abu Marzouk says "Hamas is willing to talk directly to the Israelis" over issues including Gazoo border crossings and prisoner releases. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 More than my SS check... |
| Posted by: borgboy 2014-09-12 15:58 |
| #1 A Mighty Muslim Rocketman makes no more than $1,240? That's like working for free...... Wait, they'd pay to light the fuse? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-09-12 07:26 |