Palestinian workers stand in line at the reopened Erez crossing to Israel, after Israel ends a ban on workers from Gaza, in Gaza City, on September 28, 2023. Photo by Atia Mohammed/Flash90 *** Local Caption *** עזה פלסטינים גבול ארז
JERUSALEM — Israel will stop providing funding to the Palestinian Authority earmarked for the Gaza Strip and will bar Palestinians in Gaza from working in Israel, the country said in a statement.
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Though Hamas seized control of Gaza from the Palestinian Authority in 2007, the PA has continued to pay tens of thousands of civil servants in the strip. The decision by Israel’s Security Cabinet on Thursday would punish the cash-strapped PA for continuing those salaries.
“Israel is severing off all contact with Gaza,” the
