GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel has agreed to suspend on Jan. 1 the Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism (GRM), a deal Palestinian contractors say has put many of them out of business and cost the Contractors Union millions of dollars a month, according to a representative of the new consensus government.
“We received a positive response from the Israeli government regarding our demand for the suspension of the GRM," Mufid al-Hasayneh, the minister of public works and housing for the new consensus government and a representative of the Palestinian presidency, told Al-Monitor.