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Israel will withhold 170 million euros from the Palestinian government in retaliation for diverting funds to "families of terrorists"

MADRID, 31 Jul.

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Israel will withhold 170 million euros from the Palestinian government in retaliation for diverting funds to "families of terrorists"

MADRID, 31 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Israeli government announced this Sunday that it will withhold some 170 million euros destined for the Palestinian Authority to compensate for the money it has given to "terrorists and their families last year."

Israel acts as a tax collector on behalf of the Palestinian government, which it has penalized on several occasions for giving part of that money as a stipend to the families of individuals that the Hebrew state considers to be terrorist elements.

The withholdings will be deducted, reports Kan News, in twelve monthly installments.

Last year, Israel denounced that the Palestinian Authority had allocated 597 million to "indirect support for terrorism during 2020", according to the newspaper 'The Times of Israel'.

These payments can be suspended under the protection of a law approved in 2018 that has already been used on previous occasions to withhold funds that correspond to the Palestinian Authority, which was already harshly criticized at the time by the Palestinian Government.