[Jerusalem Post] Khaled Abu Toameh - The money stolen by senior PA officials over the past decade is enough to pay the salaries of all PA civil servants for at least six months, the Hamas-controlled government said on Saturday in response to the general strike which paralyzed most government institutions and schools. Hamas leaders claimed that Fatah gunmen and PA security forces in the West Bank prevented a large number of schoolchildren from entering their classrooms and confiscated the keys to schools in Nablus, Tulkarm, and Jenin. Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri claimed that 85 percent of the schools in Gaza did not heed the call to strike. "It's obvious that this is a politically-motivated strike that is aimed at undermining and blackmailing the government," he charged.
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