PA Increases the Number of ‘Pay-For-Slay’ Beneficiaries, While Crying for More Aid – By Hugh Fitzgerald (Front Page Mag) / Jan 19, 2024
To gain financial stability, all the PA has to do is stop payments to terrorists and their families.
Since October 7, the IDF has killed, or captured alive, a great many terrorists, both in Gaza, and in the West Bank. Nearly half, 3,550 out of the total number of prisoners now in Israeli prisons — 8,800, have been identified by the PA as prisoners deserving to be supported under the “Pay-For-Slay” program, which provides monthly stipends both to imprisoned terrorists and to the families of terrorists killed while performing their acts of terrorism. These 3,550 new recipients of “Pay-For-Slay” are a great burden on the PA, which now has the gall to ask donors for more money so it can pay the stipends due them. More on this travesty can be found here: “PA’s “pay-for-slay” payments to rise by $1.3 million per month,” by Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch, January 10, 2024:
The PA has announced that since Hamas launched its war on Oct. 7, an additional 3,550 terrorists have been recognized as prisoners of Israel, making a total of 8,800 prisoners. The overwhelming majority of those included in this number have been captured during Israel’s activities against terror in the PA-controlled areas, while 661 are Hamas terrorists from Gaza:
- “The prisoners’ affairs institutions:
“The total number of prisoners in the occupation’s (i.e., Israel’s) prisons at the end of December 2023 reached 8,800. Of them, more than 80 female prisoners are in Damon Prison alone… The number of those [prisoners] whom the occupation classifies as ‘illegal fighters’ (i.e., Hamas terrorists from Gaza) is 661.
