EU to keep paying Palestinian government salaries in Hamas-controlled Gaza - Haaretz

Last update - 19:34 17/06/2007

EU to keep paying Palestinian government salaries in Hamas-controlled Gaza

By Reuters

A European Union aid program plans to continue making subsistence payments to tens of thousands of Palestinian government workers and pensioners in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, EU officials said on Sunday.

The EU payments may be one of the only financial cushions for Gazans after Islamist Hamas seized control of the territory in fierce fighting with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's secular Fatah faction.

Israel and the United States want to isolate Hamas - economically, diplomatically and militarily - in the Gaza Strip, while allowing funds to flow to the Western-backed emergency government set up in the West Bank by Abbas.

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The EU's Temporary International Mechanism pays monthly "allowances" - approximately $360 each - directly to the Palestinian Authority's non-security work force, bypassing the government.

"It will continue to cover Gaza. It's not our policy to strangle the Gaza people," a senior EU official said.

A second EU official said: "Security concerns permitting, we will continue work as before."

The TIM provides allowances to more than 77,000 government workers and pensioners, 60 percent of them in the West Bank and 40 percent in the Gaza Strip.

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1.	common sense prevails	19:37	\|	Leona	17/06/07

2.	in other words EU will fund terrorists?	19:39	\|	vik	17/06/07

3.	Hamas Government	20:03	\|	P. J. Casey	17/06/07

4.	Don`t give those terrorists my tax euro (end)	20:14	\|	KUTW	17/06/07

5.	good money after bad	20:20	\|	Paul Freedman	17/06/07

6.	U.S. Israeli crime	20:25	\|	Attoo	17/06/07

7.	#^6YOU KNOW THE TRUTH ADMIT IT	20:43	\|	TOBIA	17/06/07

8.	Goverment worker?	20:46	\|	Colin.	17/06/07

9.	P.J. Casey	20:53	\|	Jon	17/06/07

10.	Attoo	20:54	\|	Jon	17/06/07

11.	EUROPE WOULD FUND AL-QAEDA IF THEY ONLY KNEW WHERE TO SEND MONEY!	21:08	\|	martyrmaker	17/06/07

12.	History By The Numbers.	21:28	\|	Tony Anthony	17/06/07

13.	Israel slowly being muscled out	21:28	\|	Tim	17/06/07

14.	#11 Actually I think it was the US that hosted the Bin Ladens	21:33	\|	Don Camillo	17/06/07

15.	What`s wrong with Arabs who don`t pay their own civil servants?	21:35	\|	Uzi	17/06/07

16.	martyrmaker - actually i think it is the US	21:35	\|	moll	17/06/07

17.	EU welfare provides no incentive for change	21:57	\|	Bernard Ross	17/06/07

18.	Europe even funds Israel. There are no limits in stupidity.	22:07	\|	Andreas	17/06/07

19.	Punish EU Banks	22:10	\|	Lee	17/06/07

20.	eurabians	22:14	\|	Marcelo	17/06/07

21.	Andreas #18 how does Europe fund Israel	22:25	\|	Jabadini	17/06/07

22.	eu money	22:36	\|	vik	17/06/07

23.	Common Sense Fails Along With Morality & Law	22:56	\|	Brad	17/06/07

24.	Where is the money promised by Iran, Saudi Mafia family, Qatar?	22:58	\|	Genuine Tosefta	17/06/07

25.	#2 vic, EU has been funding terrorists for years	23:01	\|	AK	17/06/07

26.	Attoo: Misconception	23:03	\|	Brad	17/06/07

27.	Decency towards the Gazan non-military citizens	23:08	\|	Ann Taylor	17/06/07

28.	To Marcello and all Europe haters	23:08	\|	Mark B.	17/06/07

29.	Europe pays because of the 20 million-strong Muslim Fifth column	23:49	\|	garrick	17/06/07

30.	To all talkbackers	00:01	\|	Alan	18/06/07

31.	Quartet eyes Palestinian crisis	00:05	\|	KUTW	18/06/07

32.	Mark in Amsterdam, stop hyperventilating	00:05	\|	AK	18/06/07

33.	# 6 Chocking?	01:16	\|	Lynn	18/06/07

34.	citizens of gaza	01:28	\|	Leon	18/06/07

35.	No money without duty!	01:33	\|	Sens	18/06/07

36.	I honestly hope that you are right	01:33	\|	European	18/06/07

37.	Why PAY PALESTINIANS IN GAZA AND NOT REFUGES IN DARFUR(27)	03:54	\|	Jorge	18/06/07