(Jerusalem Post) Khaled Abu Toameh - Israeli officials said that last week they handed over NIS 1.37 billion in taxes that it collected on behalf of the Palestinians in December, January and February. NIS 160,000 was deducted from the transfer to pay part of the PA's debt to the Israel Electric Corporation, which stands at nearly NIS 2b., an Israeli official said. Israel had withheld the money to protest the PA's application in January to become a member state of the International Criminal Court [ICC]. PA President Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday that Israel has to transfer the full sum of money. "Either they give us all the money or we go to the court [ICC]. Indeed, we decided to return the money and we haven't received the funds," he said.
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