Hamas Movement charged Prime Minister Rami al-Hamdallah of using misleading information with regards to his government financial expenses on Gaza.
This followed a statement by Premier Hamdallah who said that his government spent about 17 billion dollars on Gaza over the past 10 years. The statement also claimed that the latest salary cut decision did not affect the wages of Gaza employees; rather it affected some allowances.
The Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said in a statement on Friday evening that Hamdallah’s government in Ramallah receives around 100 million dollars monthly from tax revenues on goods entering the Gaza Strip.
The government however abandoned its duties towards the people of the besieged Gaza Strip and deliberately creates more crises he added.
Barhoum affirmed his Movement’s readiness to hand over all governmental sectors and ministries in Gaza to Ramallah’s government on condition that it would abide by its duties towards Gaza and to implement all what was agreed upon in the presence of the national and Islamic factions.
Gaza markets have witnessed a state of semi-paralysis after the Palestinian Authority deducted 30 percent of employees’ salaries in the Gaza Strip under the pretext of the financial crisis.
