PA Prime Minister: Foreign aid has decreased at a rate of 70%, but "we will not exchange our basic policies for any money"
Headline: "Hamdallah: We will not exchange our national enterprise for any money"
"[PA] Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah said: 'The conditions under which we are working are unusual and difficult: The foreign aid has decreased by a rate of 70%, and despite this we have overcome these conditions and international reports praise the functioning of the [PA] government.'
Hamdallah added: 'We demand that the [international] community press Israel to allow investments in the territories called [Area] C (i.e., areas of the West Bank under full Israeli administration according to the Oslo Accords), which constitute a financial source worth $3.5 billion a year if we invest in it, according to the World Bank. We will not exchange our basic policies for any money, as [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas said. We demand that the occupation on our land be ended, and there is no retreat from the two-state solution in order to achieve our independence and our state.’"
"[PA] Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah said: 'The conditions under which we are working are unusual and difficult: The foreign aid has decreased by a rate of 70%, and despite this we have overcome these conditions and international reports praise the functioning of the [PA] government.'
Hamdallah added: 'We demand that the [international] community press Israel to allow investments in the territories called [Area] C (i.e., areas of the West Bank under full Israeli administration according to the Oslo Accords), which constitute a financial source worth $3.5 billion a year if we invest in it, according to the World Bank. We will not exchange our basic policies for any money, as [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas said. We demand that the occupation on our land be ended, and there is no retreat from the two-state solution in order to achieve our independence and our state.’"