PALESTINIAN BANK REGULATIONS

Armed groups threaten Palestinian banks.

GAZA CITY (AFP) - The armed wing of Hamas and three other groups have threatened Palestinian banks if they do not transfer salaries to civil servants, who remain unpaid since late February. “The national banks were created to serve the interests of the Palestinian people. If their mission has changed and they become an instrument of the siege we will treat them as those who besiege the Palestinians,” the statement signed by Hamas’s Ezzedin al-Qassam Brigades said Sunday. The other signatories were the Popular Resistance Committees and two cells that operate under the umbrella of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.