"We only provide partial solutions, and they are not enough. It is impossible, with] about 5,000, or a little more than 5,000 Palestinian families, families of Martyrs just in Lebanon.”
Official PA TV host: “His Honor [PA] President [Abbas] referred in his speech [at the Eighth Fatah Conference] to the issue of the tax money being held by the occupation, and to the financial crisis caused to the Palestinian people, which includes the inability of the PA to pay salaries to the families of the Martyrs and the prisoners (i.e., terrorists), is there hope for solving this problem?”
National Association of the Families of the Martyrs of Palestine Secretary-General in Lebanon and Eighth Fatah Conference member Issam Halabi: “We, as the National Association of the Families of the Martyrs [of Palestine], cooperate with movement institutions to find [solutions] – but we only provide partial solutions, and they are not enough. It is impossible [with] about 5,000, or a little more than 5,000 Palestinian families, families of Martyrs just in Lebanon.”
[Falestinona, Fatah’s Information and Culture Commission in Lebanon, YouTube channel, May 17, 2026]
Israel's Anti "Pay-for-Slay" Law - Israeli law stating that the PA payments to terrorists and the families of dead terrorists is a financial incentive to terror. The law instructs the state to deduct and freeze the amount of money the PA pays in salaries to imprisoned terrorists and families of "Martyrs" from the tax money Israel collects for the PA. Should the PA stop these payments for a full year, the Israeli government would have the option of giving all or part of the frozen money to the PA.
The law was enacted by the Israeli Parliament on July 2, 2018. During the parliamentary vote, the law's sponsor Avi Dichter said: “The Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee received much help in its deliberations... from Palestinian Media Watch who provided us with authentic data that enabled productive and professional deliberations, nuances that are very difficult to achieve without precise data.” [Israeli Parliament website, July 2, 2018] In accordance with the law, as of September 2021 Israel’s Security Cabinet had ordered the freeze of 1.857 billion shekels ($580.15 million) - the sum equivalent to the PA payments to terrorists in 2018, 2019, and 2020.