Israel's failure to transfer tax revenues to the Palestinian Authority is preventing it from paying salaries and pensions to its civil servants and retired workers.
The Israeli Cabinet decided last November to suspend the transfer of the tax revenues.
Norway undertook the process of receiving the tax revenues collected by Israel on behalf of the Palestinian Authority after they were suspended, according to a statement by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued on February 19.
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said at Tuesday's weekly Cabinet conference that Israel is withholding all the tax revenues and has yet to transfer any amounts.
Employees and pensioners last received their full salaries in October 2021, after which they only received their salaries intermittently due to the authority’s financial crisis, and to top it all off, they have received nothing since January this year.
