PA used $280 million sent by Israel to pay terrorists
Under the PA’s “pay for slay” policy, Ramallah disburses monthly salaries to terrorists and their families.
ISRAEL BETRAYED: Biden Admin Resumes Aid to Palestinians, Despite "Pay for Slay", April 8, 2021 Almost one billion shekels ($278 million) in yearly tax revenue that
Israel collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority (PA) goes towards
Ramallah’s “pay for slay” policy, under which it disburses monthly salaries to terrorists and their families, legal documents indicated on Sunday.
The information was revealed during a hearing brought by the parents of Dalia Lemkus, who was stabbed to death by a Palestinian terrorist at a bus stop near the town of Alon Shvut in Judea almost 10 years ago.
The terrorist, a Palestinian Islamic Jihad member from Hebron, was
convicted in 2015 to two life sentences, in addition to paying four
million shekel ($1.1 million) in compensation to the victims’ relatives.
Lemkus’ parents subsequently took enforcement action against the PA, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Israeli Finance Ministry, noting that terrorist Maher al-Hashlamoun receives a monthly “salary” of 12,000 shekel ($3,300) from Ramallah for the murder.
Jerusalem collects 600 to 700 million shekels ($166-194 million) in tax funds on behalf of the PA every month under the terms of the Oslo Accords, signed with PLO terrorist Yasser Arafat in the 1990s.
“As
it appears from the material submitted to the court and as it has been
proven, the Palestinian Authority pays terrorists and their families
huge sums every month; probably close to one billion NIS a year,”
Israel’s Enforcement and Collection Authority, the agency tasked with
implementing court rulings, said on Sunday.
The organization’s
decision also confirmed that the “Martyrs’ Fund” is enshrined in PA law,
granting convicted terrorists or their families a “right” to receive
payment from Ramallah.
The Enforcement and Collection Authority
ordered the PA to pay Lemkus’ parents 276,000 shekel ($76,500) in
garnished “wages” for the period Aug. 2021-June 2023, local media
reported.
Since Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre in Israeli communities near Gaza, the PA has added thousands of Palestinians to its list of people who qualify to receive terror stipends, an Israeli watchdog reported last month.
PA
officials announced that 3,550 terrorists imprisoned in Israel will
receive payouts, as will the families of over 20,000 slain “martyrs,”
the Jerusalem-based Palestine Media Watch (PMW) said.
The figure
for the prisoners was announced on the Telegram channel of the PA-funded
Prisoners’ Club. The number of “martyrs,” which includes terrorists
killed while carrying out attacks, was reported in Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, the official PA daily newspaper, on Jan. 10.
Of
the 3,550 terrorists slated to receive payouts, 661 are Hamas
terrorists from Gaza. The remainder are Palestinians arrested in almost
daily Israeli counterterror operations throughout Judea and Samaria.
“The
nearly 67% rise in the number of prisoners will initially cost the PA
an additional $1,331,000 per month (4,970,000 shekels), adding $16
million to last year’s expenditure of $161 million (600,000,000 shekels)
on terror salaries,” PMW reported.
PA Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said
on Sunday that international leaders gathered in Germany for the 60th
Munich Security Conference are too focused on the Hamas atrocities of
Oct. 7.
“Palestinian suffering did not start on Oct. 7.
Palestinians have been suffering for the last 75 years…we need an end to
the struggle. Don’t deal with the cosmetics, you should deal with the
roots of the problem, which is Israeli occupation,” said Shtayyeh.
Almost one billion shekels ($278 million) in yearly tax revenue that Israel collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority (PA) goes towards Ramallah’s “pay for slay” policy, under which it disburses monthly salaries to terrorists and their families, legal documents indicated on Sunday.
The information was revealed during a hearing brought by the parents of Dalia Lemkus, who was stabbed to death by a Palestinian terrorist at a bus stop near the town of Alon Shvut in Judea almost 10 years ago.
The terrorist, a Palestinian Islamic Jihad member from Hebron, was convicted in 2015 to two life sentences, in addition to paying four million shekel ($1.1 million) in compensation to the victims’ relatives.
Lemkus’ parents subsequently took enforcement action against the PA, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Israeli Finance Ministry, noting that terrorist Maher al-Hashlamoun receives a monthly “salary” of 12,000 shekel ($3,300) from Ramallah for the murder.
Jerusalem collects 600 to 700 million shekels ($166-194 million) in tax funds on behalf of the PA every month under the terms of the Oslo Accords, signed with PLO terrorist Yasser Arafat in the 1990s.
“As it appears from the material submitted to the court and as it has been proven, the Palestinian Authority pays terrorists and their families huge sums every month; probably close to one billion NIS a year,” Israel’s Enforcement and Collection Authority, the agency tasked with implementing court rulings, said on Sunday.
The organization’s decision also confirmed that the “Martyrs’ Fund” is enshrined in PA law, granting convicted terrorists or their families a “right” to receive payment from Ramallah.
The Enforcement and Collection Authority ordered the PA to pay Lemkus’ parents 276,000 shekel ($76,500) in garnished “wages” for the period Aug. 2021-June 2023, local media reported.
Since Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre in Israeli communities near Gaza, the PA has added thousands of Palestinians to its list of people who qualify to receive terror stipends, an Israeli watchdog reported last month.
PA officials announced that 3,550 terrorists imprisoned in Israel will receive payouts, as will the families of over 20,000 slain “martyrs,” the Jerusalem-based Palestine Media Watch (PMW) said.
The figure for the prisoners was announced on the Telegram channel of the PA-funded Prisoners’ Club. The number of “martyrs,” which includes terrorists killed while carrying out attacks, was reported in Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, the official PA daily newspaper, on Jan. 10.
Of the 3,550 terrorists slated to receive payouts, 661 are Hamas terrorists from Gaza. The remainder are Palestinians arrested in almost daily Israeli counterterror operations throughout Judea and Samaria.
“The nearly 67% rise in the number of prisoners will initially cost the PA an additional $1,331,000 per month (4,970,000 shekels), adding $16 million to last year’s expenditure of $161 million (600,000,000 shekels) on terror salaries,” PMW reported.
PA Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said on Sunday that international leaders gathered in Germany for the 60th Munich Security Conference are too focused on the Hamas atrocities of Oct. 7.
“Palestinian suffering did not start on Oct. 7. Palestinians have been suffering for the last 75 years…we need an end to the struggle. Don’t deal with the cosmetics, you should deal with the roots of the problem, which is Israeli occupation,” said Shtayyeh.
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