Middle East

Prompting came at meeting in Baghdad last week, according to numerous sources. However, Iranians advised Iraqis not to "go too far."

Sex crimes have been an increasing topic of conversation in recent years in the conservative, Muslim-majority nation, with several high profile court cases coming to varying conclusions.

"Israel proposed an outline whereby the money from Qatar will be allotted via coupons instead of cash, and we do not agree to that," says a senior Hamas official.

Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh, the former chairman of the Iranian parliament's national security and foreign policy committee, laments that "no one has given a serious thought to the problem."

The measure is based on a 2018 law under which Israel can deduct tax revenues it collects on behalf of the PA in order to prevent them from reaching terrorists.

"The war we are in is economic and therefore requires unconventional means," Col. Hassan Barakat says.

"This is part of the Iranian strategy to become regional hegemons. Hence, the first thing that needs to be done, mostly by the United States and the international community, is to stop Iranian activation of these militias,” says Col. (res.) Shaul Shay.

Those receiving funds will receive cards for withdrawing money from the PA postal bank using ATM machines. The PA's "pay-for-slay" policy is a widely condemned practice that takes a growing cut of Ramallah's budget – funded by donor countries in the West and the Arab world – every year.

In its footnotes on four of 18 textbooks the EU sought to belatedly include in the study, researchers from the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in Germany noted they had been unable to locate the books in the PA education system's digital library.