Pay for slay

Palestinian Authority President Abbas faces backlash over cutting 'pay-for-slay' salaries

Palestinians have held protests across the West Bank, accusing Mahmoud Abbas and his leadership of “disrespecting the sacrifices made by the Palestinian people.”

President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) delivers his speech during the 2025 Atreju political festival organized by Fratelli d'Italia party near Castel Sant'Angelo, on December 12, 2025 in Rome, Italy.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (not pictured) meet at Chigi Palace, in Rome, Italy, November 7, 2025.

EU probe into Palestinian Authority shows violations of 'pay-for-slay' ban - report

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas looks on as he visits the Istishari Cancer Center in Ramallah, in the West Bank, May 14, 2025.

FM Sa'ar: PA trying to ‘fool the world’ on pay-for-slay despite finance minister dismissal

Palestinians hold pictures of their relatives during a protest demanding Israel to return the bodies of Palestinians held by Israel, in the West Bank city of Hebron, August 31, 2025.

Palestinian ‘pay-for-slay’ policy isn’t over, watchdog says, citing Saturday payouts


MKs call for Palestinian prisoners’ board to be designated as terrorist

The Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs holds a "central role" in disseminating the salaries to the families of terrorists serving time in Israeli prisons.

Prison cell block

Congressman calls for PA official to be blacklisted as sponsor of terror

“This vile practice must end, and your administration has the courage and moral clarity to do it.”

Congressman Doug Lamborn (R-CO) speaks to demonstrators following oral arguments in the Masterpiece Cakeshop vs. Colorado Civil Rights Commission case at the Supreme Court in Washington, US, December 5, 2017.

Court lets state seize ‘pay for slay’ funds from terrorist prisoner

The Defense Ministry said that the incident was in October 2005 and took place in Hadera with Omar helping transport the terrorist.

Money seized by the police and Shin Bet from a terrorist's family in east Jerusalem

In any dispute you look at the facts

The Palestinian Authority continues its sickening “pay-for-slay” program its horrifically anti-Semitic educational programs, or its government-condoned hateful clerical sermons to the masses.

Rabbi Yechezkel Moskowitz

NGO threatens to sue Citibank as ‘pay for slay’ terrorist funds conduit

Allowing such “pay for slay” funds to pass through its accounts could expose Citibank to both civil and criminal liability under the US Anti Terrorism Act.

Citibank

Dichter to PM: Enforcing law against PA ‘pay for slay’ not optional

Bennett: "You say you want to fight terrorism. The best way to do it is to dry it out and take away its money."

Money for terror.

PA determined to remit terror salary payments in defiance of Israeli law

The PA has declared its intention to continue paying terrorists' salaries through banks in the region, leaving the institutions vulnerable to prosecution.

Money seized by the police and Shin Bet from a terrorist's family in east Jerusalem

US Jewish group criticizes Joe Biden's call to restore funding to PA

The organization added that Biden's proposal may be “partially illegal” under the conditions of the Taylor Force Act.

US President Joe Biden gestures after disembarking from a plane upon landing at Ben Gurion International Airport in Lod, near Tel Aviv, Israel March 8, 2016

Israel returning money deducted to stop Palestinian terrorists’ salaries

PA paid NIS 517.4m. on these salaries in 2019, some NIS 15m. more than previous year

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon

Banks prove to be 'weak link' in terror funding, close terrorists accounts

The decision came ahead of legislation set to take force on Saturday, which makes the transfer of 'pay for slay' payments to terrorists a criminal act.

Gazans wait to draw money from an ATM of the Bank of Palesti