Norway Urges Israel to Release Full Palestinian Tax Transfer
OSLO (Dispatches) – Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere has urged the Zionist regime to release the full tax transfer it is withholding from the Palestinian Authority (PA), saying the payment was “critical” for the welfare the Palestinian population.
Norway is the chair of the international donor group to the Palestinian territories, known as the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee. It was a facilitator in the 1992-93 talks between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization that led to the Oslo Accords providing for limited Palestinian self-rule.
On Nov. 2, the occupying regime said it would proceed with a tax revenue transfer to the PA in the Israeli-occupied West Bank but would withhold funds bound for Gaza, where the PA helps cover public sector wages and pay for electricity.