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Palestinian Authority leader Mahmud Abbas speaks during a meeting with journalists in the West Bank cityof Ramallah on July 3, 2019. Photo by Flash90.

Sidelined by international community, Palestinians accept tax money withheld by Israel

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Buckling under severe financial strain and unable to maintain its own threat to reject tax transfers from Israel, the Palestinian Authority this week accepted NIS 1.5 billion (nearly $430 million) in a move it...
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon addresses the U.N. Security Council during a meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. Credit: U.N. Photo/Loey Felipe.

Danon urges action by UN Security Council after terror groups kill Israeli student

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Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon urged the world body to condemn the murder of an Israeli teen in an apparent terrorist attack in the West Bank on Thursday. In a letter addressed...
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh (right) and P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas at the swearing-in ceremony of the new government at the P.A. headquarters in Ramallah, April 13, 2019. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.

PA doubles salary of terrorist responsible for murder of 3 Israeli teens

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According to Israeli NGO Palestinian Media Watch, on July 7 the Palestinian Authority doubled the monthly salary it pays to Husam al-Qawasmi, the terrorist that planned the 2014 kidnapping and murder of Eyal Yifrach,...
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas at a meeting of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization in the city of Ramallah in the West Bank, on Feb. 13, 2017. Photo by Flash90.

PA increased payments to terrorists by 11.8 percent in first half of 2019

The Palestinian Authority has publicized its monthly expenditures for the first five months of 2019. The figures show that the P.A. has paid no less than NIS 234,172,000 (more than $65 million), or, on average,...
File photo: Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas meets European Union foreign-policy chief Federica Mogherini in Ramallah on Nov. 8, 2014. Photo by STR/Flash90.

Watchdog raises concerns over EU role in funding Palestinian Authority’s terrorist prisoners

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With both the United States and Israel exerting financial pressure on the Palestinian Authority to end its payments to terrorist prisoners and the families of “martyrs,” the media watchdog group Palestinian Media Watch is...
Palestinians fill plastic bottles with drinking water from a public tap in the southern Gaza Strip refugee camp of Rafah, on July 26, 2015. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90.

Palestinian Authority prioritizes salaries to terrorists over medical care for ill Palestinians

Until now, Israel has been giving medical treatment in Israel to thousands of Palestinians every year. But this humanitarian program will now come to an end, as the Palestinian Authority has decided to stop...
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah on June 27, 2018. Photo: Alaa Badarneh/A.P.

PA leader Abbas warns: ‘Without terrorist salaries, we will nix Paris Protocol’

Israel has one week to reinstate funds it has deducted from the taxes it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority, otherwise, the P.A. will seek to reopen the Paris Protocol, the office of...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Dec. 2, 2018. Photo by Marc Israel Sellem/POOL.

Israel’s Security Cabinet approves law to deduct terror payments from PA

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Israel’s Security Cabinet approved the implementation of a law on Sunday to deduct funds from tax revenue withheld from the Palestinian Authority over its payments to terrorists and their families. The move would deduct funds...
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting with members of the Central Committee in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Jan. 14, 2018. Photo by Flash90.

Palestinian Authority spends six times more on terrorists than on own population

In its 2017 budget, the Palestinian Authority allocated NIS 550 million ($150 million) to pay salaries to terrorist prisoners and released terrorist prisoners. The salaries paid to these recipients, among them murderers, ranged from NIS...
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) speaking at 2016 AIPAC Policy Conference. Credit: Lorie Shaull/Flickr.

Cruz introduces bill to impose sanctions on Palestinian officials for rewarding terrorism

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) introduced legislation on Thursday to impose sanctions on Palestinian officials who reward terrorists. The End Palestinian Terror Salaries Act would, within 90 days of being enacted, impose financial penalties on Palestinian officials who...