Palestinians keep up refusal of tax revenues after Israel cuts Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmud Abbas holds the weekly cabinet meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah where he restates the Palestinians' refusal to accept tax revenues collected on their behalf by Israel so long as the Jewish state deducts millions of dollars over a dispute about prisoners. Israel collects around $190 million a month in customs duties levied on goods destined for Palestinian markets that transit through Israeli ports, and then it transfers the money to the PA. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES