Ramallah [Palestine], October 23: The Palestinian government condemned on Tuesday an Israeli court decision to freeze new funds from the Palestinian Authority.
Mohammed Abu al-Rub, director of the Palestinian Government Communication Center, said to the Palestinian official news agency WAFA that freezing additional Palestinian funds is a new attempt to further target Palestinian state institutions and compel them to stop fulfilling their commitments to the Palestinian people.
Abu al-Rub emphasized that the official Palestinian position is clear in rejecting the Israeli "extortion," adding that Israel is enforcing a severe financial blockade by cutting over half of the monthly clearance revenues, which is the main source of the Palestinian public finances.
According to Israel's state-owned Kan TV news, the Central Court in Jerusalem ordered the freezing of 410 million Israeli shekels (109 million U.S. dollars) from the Palestinian Authority's funds earlier in the day.
Source: Xinhua