Coupled with the above, was the Israeli occupation’s deduction of Palestinian tax revenues money due for the State of Palestine, as a bargain chip to pressure the later to stop payments of living maintenance money paid to families of prisoners, injured and martyrs, a deduction that violates their rights. The deductions constituted (7%) of the Palestinian annual tax clearance revenues. 2. National economy: The Palestinian economy suffered from the continuous Israeli policies and procedures and faced a set of challenges that had continuous repercussions on the Palestinian economy, including:15 - Control of its economic resources located in areas classified "C", which are under full Israeli control, completion of the construction of the annexation and expansion wall and confiscation of land for settlement expansion. It also suffered from the continued separation of the Palestinian governorates from each other and from the dependence of the Palestinian economy on the Israeli economy. The occupation authorities also continued control of (62%) of the area of the West Bank that is richest in economic resources, in addition to their control over (85%) of water sources, as well as control of crossings and borders. - Closing and destroying economic establishments and the occupation's attacks on the economic infrastructure, as it continued the policy of demolishing and closing economic establishments, closing and destroying dozens of them in the West Bank, in addition to confiscating some equipment and machinery, which resulted in direct losses estimated at millions of shekels. - The failure to provide the Palestinian governorates with adequate quantities of water has created a major setback for the owners of industrial establishments that are dependent on water. - Continuing to impede the movement of goods (import and export, marketing of products), as the import of dual-use materials that constitute major production inputs for some Palestinian industries, has been prohibited. - Competition of the with settlement products, as the Palestinian market continued to be an important market for the disposal of Israeli exports in general and settlement exports in particular, as the Ministry of National Economy seized more than 500 thousand shekels-worth Israeli settlements' products. 3- Local government sector: The local government sector suffered a number of violations, including those targeting infrastructure, impeding the implementation of projects or Correspondence received by the Authority from the Ministry of National Economy on January 14, 2020. .15