RAMALLAH, June 15, 2017 (WAFA) - Member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Saleh Rafat, said Thursday that any Israeli action against financial allowances made to families of prisoners and those killed by Israel is unacceptable.

The Knesset voted on Wednesday in the preliminary reading to deduct the equivalent of the allowances estimated at $280 million a year from the tax funds it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority on products entering through its ports but destined to the Palestinian areas.

Rafat accused in an interview on Voice of Palestine radio the Israeli parliament of piracy and of stealing the Palestinian money, saying it will not be accepted.

He stressed that Palestinians killed by Israel and the prisoners are victims of the occupation.

He said if Israel does carry out such an act, then the Palestinian Authority will take it to the International Criminal Court.

Member of the Knesset from the Joint List, Aida Touma, also said that the Knesset‘s ratification in a preliminary reading of the law is a violation of the Paris Economic Protocols, which bars Israel from interfering in the tax money it collects for the Palestinians.

She told Voice of Palestine radio that the Israeli parliament is going to give its final approval of this law, stressing the need to conduct a real battle to thwart it.

M.K.