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PLO Says It Will Continue Payments to Terrorists

by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – The Palestinian Authority announced Monday it will continue paying monthly salaries to terrorists in prison, WND reports. In violation of recent Israeli law, the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) said the salaries would continue to be paid through local banks in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank).

Enacted on May 9, the Israeli legislation criminalizes the processing of payments to anyone being rewarded for acts of terrorism against the Jewish States. The law covers banks and their employees, WND reported.

In defiance of the legislation, the director of PLO Prisoners’ Affairs, Qadri Abu Bakr, said Monday “the payment of the salaries of the prisoners and the Martyrs’ families through the banks will continue until the development of a banking institution that will become a bank for them.” Abu Bakr said discontinuing the salaries “harms the history of the prisoners and Martyrs, their struggle, and their sacrifices.”

According to WND, Israel’s minister of defense recently began confiscating salaries paid to Israeli-Arab terrorists. In 2019, Israel froze the transfer to the PA of more than 500 million shekels, about $144 million, WND reported.

In 2018 the US passed the Taylor Force Act, under which aid will be given only on the condition payment to terrorists in stopped. Holland and Australia have also stopped funding the Palestinian Authority.