Israel to transfer cash to Palestinian government
AP
Date: 5/16/2011
JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel has agreed to transfer to the Palestinians cash it withheld after the rival Palestinian factions signed a unity pact.
Israel collects tax funds and customs fees from Palestinians who work in Israel on the Palestinians' behalf. It is supposed to transfer the money to the Western–backed Palestinian Authority.
But it held up the transfer this month, saying it feared money would reach militants in the Hamas–ruled Gaza Strip.
Earlier this month, the Palestinian Authority signed a unity deal with the Iranian–backed Hamas, which has killed hundreds of Israelis.
Israel had come under heavy international pressure to release the funds.
The Finance Ministry said Monday the exact sum transferred would be determined in a meeting with Palestinian officials.
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JERUSALEM (AP) – The military says Israel's frontiers are quiet after a violent day of border breaches, though security forces remain on alert for more violence.
Police, meanwhile, say they arrested an unarmed man from Syria who tried to make his way out of the Golan Heights into Israel.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld says the man was stopped in a taxi driven by a Palestinian from east Jerusalem at the exit of the Golan village of Majdal Shams.
Rosenfeld says police carried out house–to–house searches in Majdal Shams all night looking for some of the hundreds of people from Syria who burst through a border fence into the village Sunday.
Other Arab protesters marched on Israel's borders with Lebanon and Gaza.
The protests sparked clashes that killed at least 15 people.
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