The Arab League, which has collected $70 million for the Palestinians, will pay the salaries of civil servants straight into their bank accounts. A Hamas government spokesman said on Monday: "We have given the list and bank account details of the civil servants to the Arab League so that the salaries can be paid to them directly. We have had a lot of contact with the Arab League and secretary general Amr Mussa to find a solution to the financial crisis as quickly as possible" Ghazi Hamas said.He could not say when the money would be transferred. The money collected by the 22-member Arab League only covers a fraction of the needs of the cash-strapped Hamas-led government, which requires about $240 million to pay its 160,000 employees for March and April.