GAZA CITY - Lines formed at bank cash machines in Gaza City on Saturday as Palestinian government employees began to receive some of the back pay held up by an aid boycott of the ruling Hamas government. “Payments of up to 1,500 shekels (around 300 dollars) have begun to be distributed this afternoon to all Palestinian Authority employees via the presidency,” a Palestinian Authority official requesting anonymity told AFP.The money was for April salaries, and followed several part payments of back wages to 160,000 Palestinian civil servants in June.
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