Pressure is mounting on Brussels and the international community to prevent the donor-starved Palestinian authority from an almost certain collapse.
The Palestinian authority has been in a financial quandary since Hamas came to power in late March with both the EU and the US freezing aid payments over the new government's failure to renounce violence or recognise Israel's right to exist.
As a result, over 165,000 Palestinian public sector workers have not been paid for more than t...
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