PMW exclusive: PA spent at least 502 million shekels in payments to terrorist prisoners in 2018

PMW exclusive: PA spent at least 502 million shekels in payments to terrorist prisoners in 2018

PMW exclusive:

PA spent at least 502 million shekels 

in payments to terrorist prisoners in 2018

• As Israel is preparing to implement a new law that imposes financial sanctions on the PA for its "Pay for Slay" policy, PMW has looked at the PA's financial reports for 2018 which includes its payments to terrorist prisoners and released terrorist prisoners

• While the PA does not provide details of how this money was allocated between the terrorist prisoners and the released terrorist prisoners, PMW calculations, based solely on open sources, show that:

• At least 230 million shekels were paid in salaries to terrorist prisoners

• At least 176 million shekels were paid in salaries to released terrorist prisoners

• The remaining 96 million shekels covers additional salary payments and other benefits to the terrorist prisoners and released terrorist prisoners that PMW is unable to precisely quantify

By Maurice Hirsch, Adv.

According to its own budgetary update, in 2018 the Palestinian Authority spent no less than 502 million shekels on salaries and other payments to terrorist prisoners and released terrorist prisoners.

While the PA does not provide information how the 502 million shekels was allocated between the terrorist prisoners and the released terrorist prisoners, using open sources only, Palestinian Media Watch has calculated, subject to a number of limitations, these figures.

Using information obtained from the Israeli Prison Service (IPS), PMW has calculated that the Palestinian Authority paid at least 230 million shekels in salary payments to terrorist prisoners in 2018.

For example, based on the information provided by the IPS that appears in the 2 left hand columns in the chart below ("time served" and "number of prisoners") and the PA's own terrorist prisoner pay scale ("salary" column), PMW has calculated that in the month of January 2018 alone the PA paid almost 20 million shekels in salaries to the terrorist prisoners.



Additional figures calculated by PMW show that the PA also paid no less than 176 million shekels in salaries to released terrorist prisoners in 2018. 

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