Israel says it's temporarily
cutting off
the transfer of funds to the Palestinian Authority. The funds, which consist of taxes and duties that Israel collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority,
make up
some 70% of the authority's revenues. The announcement follows a decision on Monday by the United Nations cultural organisation Unesco to grant the Palestinians full membership. The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also called for the accelerated construction of about 2,000 housing units for Jewish settlers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
The Palestinian Authority says the main phone network in the West Bank and Gaza has suffered a sustained attack by computer hackers. Jon Donnison reports from Ramallah.
For much of the day, the Internet has been down across large parts of the West Bank and Gaza, causing frustration for many. The Palestinian Authority says the crash has been caused by computer hackers
sabotaging
the Paltel telephone network. A PA spokesperson, Ghassan Khatib, said the attacks had come from multiple sources around the world and had started this morning. He said he didn't know whether the hacking was connected to this week's successful attempt by the Palestinian leadership to gain membership of Unesco, the UN's cultural and scientific organisation.
The British Prime Minister David Cameron has said countries need to act together to tackle security threats and crime on the Internet. Addressing a two-day international conference on Internet security in London, he said governments must not use cyber security as an excuse for