Reinstatement of PA Civil Servants Threatens Unity Government – Khaled Abu Toameh
(dailyalert.org, July 2, 2014)

In a move that could lead to the collapse of the Hamas-Fatah reconciliation agreement, the Palestinian “national consensus” government on Tuesday ordered PA civil servants in Gaza to return to their workplaces for the first time since 2007. The employees had continued to receive their salaries from the PA to keep them from joining the Hamas administration in Gaza. Hamas had replaced the employees with its own 50,000 civil servants. The new Palestinian government, headed by Rami Hamdallah, has refused to pay salaries to the Hamas civil servants. (Jerusalem Post)