In Gaza, PA pays salaries to "17,000 [PA] Security [Forces] employees and 20,000 civil employees"
Economic expert Muayyad Afaneh: "Currently the PA is paying twice to the Gaza Strip. The first time is the money being held [by Israel], and the second time it is still obligated to pay the allocations to the Gaza Strip [it does] to the West Bank, meaning the same salary rate a [PA] employee in the West Bank receives, an employee in the Gaza Strip receives. We have about 17,000 [PA] Security [Forces] employees in the Gaza Strip, and 20,000 civil employees. They are still receiving salaries from the PA, and there are many services in the Gaza Strip that the PA is spending money on."
[Official PA TV, The Economic Discourse, Jan. 3, 2026]
"Money being held [by Israel]" refers to tax deductions for salaries paid to Gaza during Hamas' Oct. 7 war on Israel