The international community gave the Palestinian Authority $1.7 billion in aid last year, 50 percent more than was pledged at a donor conference last December, according to the French Foreign Ministry. More than $7 billion was pledged over a period of three years.
The figures, quoted by a French spokesman to the French news agency AFP, contradict recent complaints by the PA that it did not have enough money because donor countries have not lived up to their commitments.