The Zionist entity has confiscated hundreds of millions of dollars from Palestinian funds annually

Islam Times: Islam Times correspondent in the West Bank reported that Ashtiyeh made statements in which he said: "These statements confirm that Steinitz does not know what's going on in his ministry, nor does he know what his staff does.” He asserted that the Zionist entity has confiscated hundreds of millions of dollars from the funds of the Palestinian people annually and through different ways, mainly through tax leakage of goods circulating in the Palestinian territory, as well as stealing the money of our workforces inside the Green Line.

Ashtiyeh confirmed that what the Zionist government transfers to the National Authority are purely Palestinian funds that are collected from tax revenues from goods, and the Zionist entity takes 2% as a collection fee. He stressed that the National Authority will, within the final solution, demand compensation for all the losses of our people that have been inflicted due to the Zionist entity’s exploitation of the Palestinian Territory throughout the years of the occupation.