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(AFP) - The international community has threatened to boycott the Palestinian leadership if it pays the salaries of former Hamas employees in Gaza, prime minister Rami Hamdallah told AFP on Sunday.And that is on top of what the EU is threatening to do.
In an exclusive interview, Hamdallah said he had been warned he would face problems if he visited the Gaza Strip without first sorting out the salaries issue. [...]
"Putting Hamas employees on the government payroll is the main problem which is preventing the government from working in the Gaza Strip."
Since signing the agreement in April, Hamas has demanded that the new government take responsibility for paying its 45,000 employees, some 27,000 of whom are civil servants, he said. The rest are understood to be members of the Hamas police and security forces.
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