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The 2006–07 economic sanctions against the Palestinian National Authority were economic sanctions imposed by Israel and the United States against the Palestinian National Authority (PA) and the Palestinian territories, and the suspension of international aid to Palestinians, following the January 2006 legislative elections that brought Hamas to power. Israel imposed sanctions on the Palestinians and suspended the transfer of the taxes it collected on behalf of the PA. The US also imposed economic sanctions and prohibited all Hamas-related financial transactions.〔 The Middle East Quartet called for reviewing all assistance to any new government against its commitment to the principles of nonviolence, recognition of Israel, and acceptance of previous agreements and obligations.〔 As a result, the international community suspended its international aid to the Palestinians, causing big damage to the Palestinian economy. Eventually, aid was diverted via a ''Temporary International Mechanism'' or directly to the accounts of President Mahmoud Abbas, bypassing the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority. After the formation of an emergency government by Abbas, international aid to the Ramallah based PA was resumed, but the Hamas-led government in Gaza remained boycotted. The US and Israel lifted sanctions against the Abbas government.〔〔〔 ==After the 2006 elections== The United States had spent $2.3 million in USAID on support for the Palestinian elections, allegedly designed to bolster the image of President Abbas and his Fatah party.〔(U.S. ''Aid to the Palestinians'' ), pp. 3-5. Jeremy M. Sharp, CRS Report for Congress, 2 February 2006 (RS22370)〕 Following Hamas' electoral victory in the January 2006 Palestinian Authority legislative elections, the Middle East Quartet (United States, Russia, United Nations, and European Union) on 30 January 2006 issued a statement, saying that "It is the view of the Quartet that all members of a future Palestinian government must be committed to nonviolence, recognition of Israel, and acceptance of previous agreements and obligations, including the Roadmap," and concluded that it was inevitable that future assistance to any new government would be reviewed by donors against that government's commitment to those principles,〔(''Quartet Statement London, 30 January 2006'' ). un.org〕 which Hamas rejected. Although the Quartet formally did not call for sanctions and did not explicitly prohibit the provision of aid to the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority (PA), but rather called for aid to be ‘reviewed’ against the three principles, a combination of political pressure and US threats of sanctions against banks handling aid monies served to halt transfers to the PA.〔(''Poverty in Palestine: the human cost of the financial boycott'' ). Oxfam International, April 2007. (Here available )〕 One week after the elections, on 1 February 2006, Israel announced that it was freezing the transfer of customs revenues to the PA. Israeli officials noted that future transfers will be put on hold while the issue is being reviewed.〔 On 19 February, the cabinet approved punitive sanctions on the Palestinian Authority. Some $50 million in monthly PA customs revenues were withheld and travel restrictions on Hamas members imposed. Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that "It is clear that in light of the Hamas majority in the PLC Palestinian Legislative Council and the instructions to form a new government that were given to the head of Hamas, the PA is - in practice - becoming a terrorist authority".〔(''Israel to impose Hamas sanctions'' ). BBC News, 19 February 2006〕 Israel considered Hamas to be in power on the day the new parliament was sworn in (18 February 2006); the start of Israeli sanctions would start on that day.〔〔(''Hamas Leader Faults Israeli Sanction Plan'' ). Steven Erlanger, The New York Times, 18 February 2006〕 US Administration officials and some Members of Congress warned the Hamas leadership that the United States will no longer provide assistance to a Hamas-led PA government unless Hamas changes its charter to recognize Israel’s right to exist and renounces the use of violence.〔 Israeli officials and Western diplomats said that US and Israel were discussing ways to destabilize the Palestinian government so that newly elected Hamas officials will fail and elections will be called again. The intention was to starve the PA of money and international connections. The approach was being discussed at the highest levels of the US State Department and the Israeli government. Israeli military officials discussed cutting Gaza off completely from the West Bank and making the Israeli-Gaza border an international one. Hamas Members of Parliament would be denied to travel freely between Gaza and West Bank.〔(''U.S. and Israelis Are Said to Talk of Hamas Ouster'' ). Steven Erlanger, The New York Times, 14 February 2006〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2006–07 economic sanctions against the Palestinian National Authority」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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