EU to keep paying Palestinian government salaries in Hamas-controlled Gaza

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"A European Union aid program plans to continue making subsistence payments to tens of thousands of Palestinian government workers and pensioners in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, EU officials said on Sunday.

The EU payments may be one of the only financial cushions for Gazans after Islamist Hamas seized control of the territory in fierce fighting with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's secular Fatah faction.

Israel and the United States want to isolate Hamas - economically, diplomatically and militarily -in the Gaza Strip, while allowing funds to flow to the Western-backed emergency government set up in the West Bank by Abbas.

The EU's Temporary International Mechanism pays monthly "allowances" - approximately $360 each - directly to the Palestinian Authority's non-security work force, bypassing the government.

"It will continue to cover Gaza. It's not our policy to strangle the Gaza people," a senior EU official said."

http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/871875.html

..how much "taste" goes to Hamas. Killing Jews (which now, apparently, includes Fatah thugs) is expensive.