(Ynet News) Elior Levy - Three months after the war in Gaza, tens of thousands of residents are still residing in UNRWA facilities and others are housed in tents - in the middle of winter. The $5 billion pledged at the international conference in Cairo exists only on paper. PA President Mahmoud Abbas has blamed Hamas for the delay due to its refusal to transfer control of the border crossings to his Presidential Guard, despite promising to do so. Hamas has been "caught" several times collecting taxes on cement entering Gaza under the recovery mechanism, and only threats to halt the transfers stopped the taxation.
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