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PA Tax Money Used to Pay Palestinian Authority's Electric Bill
(Middle East Monitor-UK) Palestinians buy 90% of their electricity from Israel's Electric Company. To pay back debts accumulated by the Palestinian Authority, the Israel Finance Ministry has approved the payment of $141 million to the Electric Company from Palestinian tax money collected by Israel, the Hebrew economic newspaper The Marker reported on Sunday. Two weeks ago, the Israeli Supreme Court banned the Israel Electric Company from cutting off electricity to the Palestinian areas it supplies for lack of payment. The Israel Finance Ministry acted in light of this decision.