[Ha'aretz] Avi Issacharoff, Jack Khoury and Tal Levy - PA officials in Ramallah have admitted that some of the NIS 100 million in cash transferred to Gaza banks Thursday may have found its way to Hamas. The transfer was approved to enable the PA to pay salaries to some 70,000 employees in Gaza. In private conversations, senior PA officials - including PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad - admitted that there is no way to check whether the entire sum really reached the employees. Some of the banks' branch managers and tellers cooperate with Hamas, they explained, and could easily have diverted some of the money.
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