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


Palestinian Authority agrees to receive taxes collected by Israel - report

Hussein al-Sheikh, head of the PA's General Authority of Civilian Affairs, said he met on Thursday with Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon to resolve the crisis.

Palestinian militants of the National Resistance brigades, the armed wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), demonstrate their skills during a graduation ceremony in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip October 28, 2016.

Abbas: Within a year, no Palestinian will need treatment in Israel

“Infants and children are dying. They are not getting the treatment they are supposed to get,” Dr. Raz Somech from Sheba Medical Center told the Jerusalem Post last month.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas

PA raises salary of terrorist who helped carry out Cafe Hillel attack

Since the attacks, the PA has paid 3,248,900 shekels in financial rewards to the Hamas terrorists who carried them out, according to Palestinian Media Watch.

Dr. David Applebaum

PA President Mahmoud Abbas fires all advisers, demands back bonuses

In June, leaked PA documents showed that Cabinet members had been given a 67% pay raise, increasing their salaries from $3,000 to $5,000 a month.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses Arab journalists in Ramallah on July 3

The UK-PA partnership to reward terrorists

In order to create the impression of bona fide activities and to give the donor countries that needed it “plausible deniability” regarding the manner in which the funds were used.

The Parliament of the United Kingdom

1,026 Palestinian prisoner terrorists enrolled in university - report

In 2011, it was decided by the Israeli government to deny prisoner terrorists the right to pursue higher education while in jail.

Palestinian prisoner terrorists receive academic degrees at a ceremony broadcast on Palestinian TV

HU bomber terrorists received over $1.2 million in 'pay-for-slay' payments

The bombing, which took place on July 31, 2002, was planned and perpetrated by members of an eastern Jerusalem Hamas cell during the Second Intifada.

Memorial ceremony to mark 13 years since the terrorist attack at the Hebrew University.

UK forced to disclose audits of funds used by PA for terrorists’ salaries

“The Commissioner has concluded that there is a significant public interest in the disclosure of the information.”

A participant stands near a logo of World Bank at the International Monetary Fund - World Bank Annual Meeting 2018

PA doubles pay-for-slay salary to murderer of 3 Israeli teenagers

A prisoner’s monthly salary increases with prison time served.

Kidnapped Israeli teens

Greenblatt slams PA's pay-for-slay rise, asks: Why do donor countries allow it?

"Will donor countries continue to ignore the PA using their budget support to continue their REPREHENSIBLE 'Pay to Slay' incentive to MURDERERS?"

US Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt speaks at the 8th annual Jerusalem Post conference, New York