PA PM: Dispute with Israel over terror salaries will lead to weakening of security forces
Headline: "Shtayyeh: Trump's economic path is detached from reality"
"[PA] Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh… said to Reuters yesterday [June 27, 2019]… that the tax dispute with Israel (i.e., referring to Israel's Anti "Pay-for-Slay" Law to deduct terror salaries; see note below) has caused a worsening of the current financial crisis.
He said that the deficit was one of the reasons that forced the PA to give the public employees [only] half of their salaries. He warned that this situation is liable to lead to the weakening of the [PA] Security Forces soon. Shtayyeh wondered: 'Will we be able to continue in this condition? I am not sure. If the policemen do not have gas in their cars, they will not be able to maintain law and order in the streets, and herein lies the problem.'"