[IsraelTimes] Move to ’dry up’ finances of terror group comes as PA leader set to meet Trump at White House on reviving peace talksIsrael supplies electricity from 10 power lines that cover about 30 percent of Gazoo’s needs. Israel deducts the money from the taxes and customs it collects on behalf of the Abbas government. Egypt provides some electricity, but supplies are less reliable.
Israel last week announced the Abbas government’s intention to stop paying for Gazoo electricity. al-Sheikh’s comments marked the first official Paleostinian confirmation.
In the West Bank, a bigwig said the Abbas government would stop paying for the electricity Israel sends to Gazoo, worth at least $11 million a month.
Hussein al-Sheikh, head of the Civil Affairs Department, said Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, profits because it collects electricity payments from Gazoo residents. "We are not going to continue financing the Hamas coup in Gazoo," he told the Voice of Paleostine radio station.
Ahmed Majdalani, an Abbas aide, said that as a next step, the West Bank government would sharply reduce the amount of medicine it ships to Gazoo every month. Majdalani alleged that Hamas is "selling the medicine and collecting the money."
He said that only "necessary medicine" would be sent directly to Gazoo hospitals.