At the start of the weekly cabinet meeting held in Ramallah, the Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said that “his government still refuses to accept the tax revenues that make up more than 60 percent of the general Palestinian revenues”.

With the end of ties, the PA stopped receiving around $200 million of tax revenues Israel collects on its behalf on goods and services destined to the Palestinian territories. Israel insists on delivering the money only through coordination, a step strongly rejected by the PA, which describes it as a “blackmail” attempt. Furthermore, Shtayyeh called on the Palestinian public employees, who number more than 180,000, and who were promised only half salary for the second month in a row, to be patient and steadfast in facing this financial crisis.

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