Sigh. The international community has threatened to boycott the Palestinian leadership if it pays the salaries of former Hamas employees in Gaza, prime minister Rami Hamdallah told AFP on Sunday. In an exclusive interview, Hamdallah said he had been warned he would face problems if he visited the Gaza Strip without first regulating the problem of the salaries. News of the potential boycott comes after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas threatened late Saturday to break off the Palestinian unity agreement with Hamas if the group does not allow the government to operate properly in the Gaza Strip. We cannot continue working with Hamas this way, Abbas said on arrival to Cairo where he is scheduled to meet with Arab League foreign ministers to discuss both the unity agreement with Hamas as well as renewed peace negotiations with Israel. There are 27 undersecretaries of ministries who are running the Gaza Strip, and the national unity government cannot do anything on the ground, Abbas said. Hamdallah, who heads the Palestinian government of national consensus which took office on 2 June, said the problem of the wages had turned into the main stumbling block to an intra-Palestinian reconciliation deal. - See more at: middleeasteye.net/news/pm-palestinians-face-boycott-threats-over-hamas-wages-24683400#sthash.mBRJzhKs.dpuf
Posted on: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 16:26:26 +0000
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