Salary cuts for Palestinian civil sector workers announced this week could last several months, the spokesman for the Palestinian finance minister has told The New Arab. Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said Monday that Israel’s cuts on customs money to Ramallah for December amounted to 213 million shekels (around $213 million). The Palestinian government then announced a 25 percent cut in salaries, starting from the payments for November. “The salary cuts are directly linked to the retention of tax money by Israel,” Abdul Rahman Bayatnah, spokesperson of the Palestinian ministry o…

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