Palestinian Authority civil servants to receive full month's salary Wednesday following the Israeli government release of Palestinian revenues

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Date: 03 / 07 / 2007 Time: 22:06

Bethlehem - Ma'an -

A full month's salary will be paid on Wednesday to all Palestinian public sector employees, except those who were appointed by the Hamas government, Palestinian bank sources revealed to Ma'an on Tuesday evening.

The sources added that the banks are working overnight in order to prepare the salaries for tomorrow morning. Furthermore, the banks will start paying one third of the accumulated debts, the sources said.

Salaries will be paid regularly from now till the end of the year, the sources said.

Following the election victory of Hamas in January 2006, the Palestinian government was boycotted, politically and financially, by the international community. As a result, it failed to provide salaries to its approximately 165,000 civil servants. This salary will represent the first full month's salary in 17 months for many of them.

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If the Palestinian Authority civil servants receive full month's salary Wednesday, it will be following the Israeli government release of Palestinian revenues.

Since Hamas won the Palestinian parliamentary elections on January 2006, the Israeli occupation government led the US-EU governments in an embargo-sanctions regime to punish the Palestinian people.

Palestinian revenues from taxes were withheld by the Israeli occupation government. The US-EU government followed by making sure that the government is destabilized financially. Even Arab governments willing to send aid to the Palestinian people were prevented from doing so.

Now, after the collapse of the Palestinian national unity government, the Israeli occupation government and its allies are increasing the rift between the two main Palestinian factions, Fateh and Hamas, in order to divide Gaza from the West Bank.

The same old-fashioned colonial policy of "divide and rule" is still at work.

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