International donors are refusing to provide funds to the Palestinian Authority. The refusal, which is based on violations of the P.A.’s commitments not to increase salaries in the public sector and the resignation of the P.A.’s finance minister, Salam Fayyad, will lead to a $950 million deficit for the Palestinians in 2006, the Israeli newspaper Globes reported.
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