Jordan has demanded that all West Bank municipalities stop using Israeli electricity and water, it was reported Tuesday on Israel Radio. To that effect, Jordan has frozen all municipal funds as a pressure tactic on the West Bank cities to comply with its demand. However, it hasn’t worked and representatives of one city, Tulkarem, the first to have hooked up to the Israeli electricity network, visited Jordan in an attempt to persuade the authorities there to grant them their money. The request was denied.
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