Published: 13 October 2020
Last updated: 4 March 2024
PA asks Qatar to mediate for Israel to end unpaid tax revenues crisis (Middle-East Monitor)
As the financial situation of the Palestinian Authority (PA) worsens, the PA asked Qatar to mediate for Israel to help end the crisis of unpaid tax revenues, Asharq Al-Awsat reported on Friday
An informed source told the London-based newspaper that PA officials met Qatari officials in Doha and discussed the issue of unpaid tax revenues estimated at over a billion US dollars.
The source confirmed that the PA officials expected Qatari media to succeed in resolving the issue with Israel shortly.
In May, the PA stopped receiving the tax revenues, which were collected by Israel on behalf of the PA, after PA President Mahmoud Abbas had announced stopping all mutual agreements with Israel in response to Israel’s plans to annex the occupied West Bank.
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