Fatah: Hamas uses government money as if it were “a cash machine”
“Fatah Central Committee member and Minister of Civil Affairs [in the PA] Hussein Al-Sheikh stressed that Hamas wants to remain in power and the National Consensus Government (i.e., the Fatah-Hamas unity government) would merely serve as a cash machine… He added: ‘The Palestinian government pays [the expenses of] the Gaza Strip, and last month, the government paid 73 million shekels for the Gaza Strip’s electricity bill – while Hamas collects money for electricity, but does not transfer the collected [money] to the PA.’”