{"id":445788,"date":"2026-05-17T05:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T05:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/445788\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T05:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T05:27:09","slug":"palestinian-authority-to-reinforce-pay-for-slay-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/445788\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian Authority to reinforce &#8216;pay-for-slay&#8217; policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Foreign Ministry statement, posted on X, included a picture of a Palestinian Authority court ruling, which PMW claimed ruled in favor of a terrorist prisoner whose pay-for-slay salary had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-885841\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suspended<\/a>. This, PMW explained, created a legal precedent for restoring the salaries of 1,600 more prisoners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;The terrorist&#8217;s lawyer told Hebron&#8217;s Radio Alam that the PA&#8217;s lawyers didn&#8217;t contest his entitlement to a salary, instead citing a technical rationale for the suspension,&#8221; Palestinian Media Watch wrote on X. &#8220;The lawyer countered that Pay-for-Slay is guaranteed under PA law, which was accepted by the court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">A total of $156 million was paid out to the terrorists and their families, the report said. $126m. was paid to Palestinian terrorists, including those released from Israeli custody, and $30m. was paid to the families of Palestinian terrorists who died committing their acts of terrorism. The PA had promised to give the families a total of $214m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cThe PA continues to provide a system of compensation in support of terrorism through new mechanisms and under a different name,\u201d the State Department reported. The report cited information provided by the Israeli government, open-source information, and NGOs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Payments continued despite PA President Mahmoud Abbas legislating changes to the West Bank\u2019s welfare system last year, shifting payments to a needs-based model rather than stipends scaled to the length of a terrorist\u2019s sentence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cDespite changing the mechanisms, the PA continued payments and benefits to Palestinian terrorists and their families,\u201d the State Department reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Under the Taylor Force Act (2018), Washington is unable to offer economic aid to Ramallah until it ends pay-for-slay payments and its statements of public support for terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Danielle Greyman-Kennard contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Foreign Ministry statement, posted on X, included a picture of a Palestinian Authority court ruling, which PMW&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18263,42,3893,43,5243,25402,25403,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-445788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-foreign-ministry","tag-headlines","tag-mahmoud-abbas","tag-news","tag-palestinian-authority","tag-palestinian-media-watch","tag-pay-for-slay","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}