The Palestinian Authority pays a one-time grant to incarcerated terrorists and to slain terrorists’ families.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry cited on Sunday a report that the Palestinian Authority handed out 1,500 shekel (~$520) “pay-for-slay” grants to Palestinian terrorists held in Israeli prisons and the relatives of slain terrorists, as well as wounded Palestinians.
This “blood-money policy,” the ministry tweeted, pays “stipends to reward terrorism and the murder of Israelis.”
Palestinian Media Watch, an Israeli NGO documenting incitement to violence, told JNS on Monday that the P.A.’s Ministry of Finance recently begun funding three “fighting sectors”: the wounded, the prisoners, and the relatives of slain terrorists.
The wounded sector, said founder of PMW Itamar Marcus, refers to terrorists who can be found in territories under the control of the P.A., or in Jordan, Syria, Egypt or Lebanon.