Earlier Friday, EU leaders endorsed a plan to channel aid payments to Palestinians focusing on health, social services and utilities such as heating and sanitation, while maintaining a funding freeze on the Hamas-led government.
A final statement from the EU summit said the 25-member bloc "stands ready to contribute a substantial amount to the international mechanism," which would channel aid to the Palestinians but bypass Hamas.
The EU has said it wants to have the funding mechanism up and running by the end of June.
HaaretzThis should be useful, assuming they actually can ensure the money reaches the intended recepients. Also:
FM: We will mull giving funds to Palestinians once int'l plan ready
LUXEMBOURG - Israel will decide whether to release tens of millions of dollars of tax revenues into an international plan to aid Palestinians once the plan is complete, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said Tuesday.
The plan is being drawn up by European Union officials, and was last month agreed in principle by the Quartet of Middle East peace brokers - the EU, United States, United Nations and Russia.
After meeting EU officials working on the plan, Livni said that Israel saw a need to help ordinary Palestinians but the money must not go through the Hamas-led government.
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