by Saud Abu RamadanGAZA
MBT Schuhe Herren, May 19 (Xinhua) -- Yousef Nassar, a 29-year-old national security officer of Shaja'ea neighborhood in Gaza city, sigh deeply as he impatiently waited for almost two weeks to receive his salary for April
MBT Sini, which is regularly transferred every month from the West Bank to the banks in the Gaza Strip.Nassar, who expects his first baby soon, is feeding a family that includes his blind father, his brother and his mother. He is one of 70,000 civil and security servants in the Gaza Strip, who usually get their monthly salaries paid by the Palestinian National Authority (PNA)."I was so concerned after the salary was delayed for more than two weeks, and I was impatiently waiting and following every piece of news on when the salary will be paid. As soon as I received a message on my mobile that salaries were transferred to the banks, I went to get it," Nassar said.The freezing of the monthly transfers left the PNA unable to pay April salaries for its 148
mont blanc kugelschreiber,000 employees in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Israel collects and transfers duties on Palestinian imports to the PNA every month, which accounts for the PNA's two thirds of its budget.Paying the salaries of the PNA employees was delayed after the Fatah party of Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and the Islamic Hamas movement reached a reconciliation agreement in Cairo on May 4 to end around four years of internal division between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.Israel has strongly slammed and opposed the signed inter- reconciliation agreement, and threatened of more tough measures against both the PNA and Hamas. "I believe that Israel wants us to pay a high price for ending the division and reaching the reconciliation agreement
mbt sicherheitsschuhe," Nassar said."I personally want a fast solution to this crisis. I got paid this month, but who knows what will happen next month. It's not only me, there are hundreds of thousands who are waiting for their salaries, which are their sole income to feed their families and their children," he said.Nassar as well as thousands of employees are so concerned that delaying their salaries would take longer than what is expected. They believe that once the Palestinian rivals of Fatah and Hamas agree on forming the national unity government soon, "the crisis will be more complicated.""If the price of reaching a reconciliation agreement is to increase our suffering and keep us starving, we don't want the reconciliation and we want our salaries to be paid regularly on time," said Hatem al-Sa'eed, a Gaza civil servant in the Palestinian ministry of agriculture.After Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip in June 2007, and routed Abbas' security forces, around 70,000 civil and security servants in the Gaza Strip were asked by Abbas and his premier Salam Fayyad to stay at home and refrain from working at offices controlled by Hamas."I call on Fayyad and the Palestinian (National) Authority to immediately launch intensive negotiations with Israel to find a fast solution to the crisis," said al-Sa'eed, adding that "if they don't agree on resolving the crisis
Montblanc Greta Garbo, I believe the reconciliation will be a disaster for the Palestinian people."Khaled Abu al-Qomsan, a Gaza-based expert on economic affairs, told Xinhua that the delay in paying the monthly salaries to the employees on regular based "is a very critical situation that harms and damage the daily life of the population
MBT Chapa Herr, and increases the status of despair among the population.""I believe if the crisis goes on, it will have negative reflection on the life of 70,000 breadwinners who feed thousands of children," said Abu al-Qomsan, adding "This crisis would also damage the economical and the social standards of the populations as well as the structure of the Palestinian family."Since Hamas took over the Gaza Strip four years ago, the PNA has been paying the salaries to 70,000 employees, civil servants and security employees. The PNA gets the money for the salaries from two major sources, Israel's taxes revenues and Arab and international donations.At the beginning of every month, hundreds of employees, who actually don't work and keep staying at home, stand in queues before the A.T.M machines of the banks all over the Gaza Strip."There has to be a solution for this crisis. I believe the solution is political, but needs a longer time," said Abu al- Qomsan. "But on the economical level, and for the short run solution, the Palestinian National Authority should immediately resolve the crisis by providing the employees with loans through the banks."Nassar and al-Sa'eed agreed that "if the price for implementing the inter-Palestinian reconciliation will lead to cutting off our salaries and increase our suffering, we prefer to keep the division going on." Abu al-Qomsan warned that "if the crisis goes on, the situation will blow up soon." Special Report: Palestine-Israel Conflicts
