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#Gaza Civil Servants, Palestinian Unity Gov’t Reach Deal on Overdue Salaries
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Palestinian government employees stage a protest over their unpaid salaries in front of the council of ministers building in Gaza City, Gaza on January 13, 2015. Photo: Anadolu/Mohammed Talatene

Civil servants in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday agreed to end their strike after government assurances to resolve their concerns regarding overdue salaries, as the #Palestinian_Authority (PA) Minister of Labor said that Gaza government employees would not be laid off. Meanwhile, #Saudi_Arabia stated that it transferred $60 million to the PA after #Israel froze millions of dollars in tax revenues on January 3 after the Palestinian Authority joined the International Criminal Court (ICC). read (...)

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#Hamas asks PA to pay #Gaza government salaries
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Hamas demanded Thursday that the #Palestinian_Authority take employees of the disbanded Gaza government onto its payroll, after scuffles broke out at banks in the Palestinian territory overnight. The dispute was the first hitch for a unity government sworn in on Monday under a reconciliation deal between Hamas and the West Bank-based PA leadership to end seven years of rival administrations in the two territories. “What happened at the banks was a result of anger by employees at being discriminated against and deprived of their wages,” Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said. read more

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Le Hamas, toujours admirable dans son sens des priorités : Welcome to Hamas’ Gaza : No Jobs for Mosque Outliers
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However, the director of the Center for Democracy and Workers’ Rights in Gaza, Nidal Ghubn, confirmed that the center has received many complaints about the employment policy of the Gaza government and Hamas-affiliated associations.

Ghubn pointed out that Palestinian society in Gaza is “diverse because we are Muslim by nature, but there are a lot of people who refuse to pray at mosques due to the rampant political and partisan polarization.”

Ghubn argued that the politicization of employment in Gaza is the highest form of corruption. He wondered how it is that mosque imams are allowed to exercise this level of control over people’s livelihoods.

Amira Hass : Palestinian Mohammed Assaf wins Arab Idol - Haaretz Daily Newspaper
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Up to now Assaf has been wary of becoming a pawn in the hands of the Palestinian Authority leaders – who supported him from the start – against the Gaza government. Still, the Assaf phenomenon draws the limits of Hamas effort to discipline the population. In direct contrast to its miniscule artistic merits, Arab Idol demonstrated just how much the Palestinians are longing for a national hero, whose name and actions are associated with happiness, success and life, not pain, suffering and mourning.

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