Necessary Funding in The Occupied Territories

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Dutch planning to give each Palestinian policeman 360 euros
By Cnaan Liphshiz and The Associated Press
The Dutch Foreign Ministry is planning to give the Palestinian Police a special grant of 6.3 million euros ($8.4 million) in the following months, the Hague's foreign minister announced last week. The special funding is "also in Israel's best interests," he said.Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen and Bert Koenders, Minister of Development Cooperation, announced the initiative last week. The money would be given to Palestinian police officers, they told the Dutch press.The Dutch government expects to give each officer 360 euros through the Temporary International Mechanism (TIM).

The Palestinian Authority is the largest employer in the West Bank and Gaza, and government salaries help provide for about one-third of the Palestinians.During the boycott, civil servants only received partial salary payments.Hamas and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party formed a coalition in March, with the goal of ending a foreign aid boycott imposed when Hamas first came to power more than a year ago. However, many countries have said they would not resume direct aid payments to the Palestinian government, because Hamas refuses to renounce violence and recognize Israel.Arab countries and several other donor nations, including Norway, have not joined the boycott. Fayyad established the PLO account to enable these donors to transfer funds. In recent weeks, Qatar send $44 million , Saudi Arabia transferred $50 million and Norway gave $10 million.Norway resumed direct aid to the Palestinian administration, after it became the first Western country to recognize the new Hamas-led coalition. "We hope our contribution will help ease the social crisis the Palestinians are now going through," said Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere.