PA: Hamas controls the ATMs, residents “lack cash to purchase goods”

PA: Hamas controls the ATMs, residents “lack cash to purchase goods”

Official PA TV reporter in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza: “The residents are in a difficult mental state due to the lack of cash. We as PA public employees cannot receive our salary that has arrived in the banks because the people with influence are acting as if the ATMs are their family’s private property, and the armed people (i.e., Hamas) are doing the same. We have no possibility of reaching the ATMs. There is a lack of cash in the markets. There are goods being offered at reasonable prices, but there is no cash to purchase them.”

[Official PA TV, April 24, 2024]