Israel seizing terrorists’ bank accounts – By WND News Staff (WND) / Jan 4 2020
Assets ordered transferred to ‘Forfeiture Unit of the General Trustee’
There long has been worldwide concern over the issue of the Palestinian Authority paying salaries to terrorists who kill Israelis and others.
The PA has been public about its practice of paying a monthly stipend to those convicted and imprisoned, or to their families if they died in their terror activities.
Multiple civilized nations have protested and several have stopped contributing to the support of the Middle East behemoth.
President Trump has been particular aggressive, but, only about a year ago, Palestinian leaders defiantly declared they won’t end payments to terrorists and their families despite international pressure.
The declarations have come from the top, reported the Investigative Project on Terrorism, including Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Qadri Abu Bakr, who directs the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs.
Bakr said, according to a translation of a report by the official PA daily Al-Hayat Al Jadida, that the leadership “will continue to support the resolve of the prisoners and their families and will not succumb to the Israeli and American pressures calling to stop the Martyrs’ (Shahids) and prisoners’ salaries (rawatib) and allowances (mukhassasat).”
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