Kadafi Says He’ll Pay Palestinians’ West Bank Wages
Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi said his country will pay the salaries of former employees of Jordan in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Radio Monte Carlo reported Thursday.
Libya “announces through your radio station that it will take the responsibility of paying the salaries,” Kadafi told the radio’s Paris-based Arabic-language service. He estimated the cost at about $1 million a month.
King Hussein of Jordan announced last week that he was handing over to the Palestine Liberation Organization the responsibility for paying the salaries of 21,000 Palestinians in the territory.
He challenged the PLO to set up a Palestinian state in the West Bank, where the PLO has been helping to lead an eight-month-old uprising against Israeli rule.
In other developments Thursday:
-- An Israeli settler, Pinchas Wallerstein, was charged with murder in the shooting death of a Palestinian youth Jan. 11 in the West Bank town of Beitin, Israel Radio reported.
-- An Israeli military judge sentenced Monira Daoud, a pregnant Palestinian woman, to four months in prison for throwing a rock during a West Bank clash April 6 in the West Bank town of Beita that left an Israeli girl and two Arabs dead.
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