PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...dissolved the 132-member assembly last month.
Deputy Parliament Speaker Hassan Khreisheh says that all but 48 politicians ‐ mostly Hamas members ‐ received their salaries this week.
Paleostinian officials aligned with Abbas’s Fatah movement have threatened further action against Hamas over its refusal to hand over power in the Gazoo Strip, even as Israel has sought to preserve calm in and around the blockaded territory.