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Israel will reportedly loan Palestinians money after highest-level talks in years

An unnamed source close to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said that he had approved the Gantz-Abbas meeting and saw it as a “routine” matter.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 4, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem on July 4, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Israel is going to lend the Palestinian Authority more than $150 million after Defense Minister Benny Gantz met with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday in Ramallah, Israeli officials said on Monday.

An unnamed source close to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told Reuters that he had approved the Gantz-Abbas meeting and saw it as a “routine” matter. “There is no diplomatic process with the Palestinians, nor will there be one,” the source said.

PA official Hussein Al Sheikh said, according to the report, that the talks with Gantz covered “all aspects” of Israeli-Palestinian relations. The talks between Gantz and Abbas took place as Bennett wrapped up his trip to Washington after meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden.

The Israeli government witheld $180 million last month from the 2020 tax revenues collected on behalf of the PA because of the payments the Palestinians make to jailed or killed terrorists and their families.

The announcement came without explanation amid a U.S. naval blockade on the Strait of Hormuz.
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