Israeli Court Urged To Stop Money To Hamas

JERUSALEM [MENL] -- Israel's High Court has received an appeal to stop the
transfer of more than $25 million to the Hamas regime.
The Israel Law Center has petitioned the court to block a Defense
Ministry decision to transfer 100 million shekel to banks in the Gaza Strip.
The money, approved by Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Bank of Israel Gov.
Stanley Fischer, was meant to pay salaries of the Hamas regime, blamed for
the daily missile strikes against the Jewish state.
"The government might as well be providing truck-loads of Kassam rockets
instead of cash to Gaza," Israel Law Center director Nitsana Darshan-Leitner
said. "Fischer and Barak have knowingly allowed for the transfer of 100
million shekels, $25 million to the Hamas run government providing for at
least 22,000 terrorist paychecks."