{"id":3351,"date":"2014-02-02T08:49:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T08:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3351"},"modified":"2014-02-02T08:49:51","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T08:49:51","slug":"israel-halts-funds-to-west-bank-settlements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/02\/02\/3351\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel halts funds to West Bank settlements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/israil-new-settlements-2.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>Israel&#8217;s finance minister halted the transfer of government funds to West Bank Jewish settlements on Saturday and ordered a probe into allegations that money meant to support municipalities had been funnelled to a pro-settler political group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The money in question had been earmarked to cover security and building maintenance fees that were incurred when Israel froze settlement building for 10 months during 2009 and 2010, the Finance Ministry said in a statement.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But some of the money may have illegally made its way to the Yesha settler&#8217;s council to be used for political purposes, including activities that run counter to government policy, the ministry said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The allegations had been reported on Israeli television.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A spokesman for the Yesha council could not be reached for comment.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Finance Minister Yair Lapid, who heads a centrist party in the ruling coalition, ordered payments to be &#8220;stopped immediately&#8221; until the issue was cleared up, the statement said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lapid opened a investigation to determine within the week where the funds had gone.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Israel&#8217;s YNet news website reported that, over the past four years, the government had transferred 148 million shekels ($42 million) to the municipalities to help compensate them for income lost as a result of the 10-month freeze, declared under U.S. pressure to help restart peace talks.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">World countries consider the settlements Israel has built in the West Bank, land that it captured in a 1967 Middle East war, to be illegal.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Palestinians say the continued presence of Jewish settlements will deny them a viable state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<em><strong> World Bulletin \/ News Desk<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel&#8217;s finance minister halted the transfer of government funds to West Bank Jewish settlements on Saturday and ordered a probe into allegations that money meant to support municipalities had been funnelled to a pro-settler political group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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