Pay for slay

Will European investment into Palestinian economy undermine Israel’s efforts to end pay-for-slay?

Itamar Marcus, the founder of Palestinian Media Watch, noted that one of the participating banks has explicitly refused requests to close accounts reportedly used to pay released terrorists.

PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY President Mahmoud Abbas gestures during the 8th General Conference of Fatah in Ramallah in May 2026.
The West Bank security barrier near Abu Dis, pictured in February 2020; illustrative.

Abbas complains that funds withheld by Israel are needed to pay terrorist salaries

Israeli soldiers guard near stickers of victims killed in the October 7 massacre and ongoing Iron Swords War at the Bental water reservoir near Kibbutz Merom Golan, in the Golan Heights, October 7, 2025.

After a $655M PLO verdict, Oct. 7 victims go after Hamas's money - interview

PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY President Mahmoud Abbas is seen at an event in Italy, last year.

A just US ruling, an Israeli absurdity: The Jewish state is complicit in rewarding terror - opinion


PA accepts Israeli money despite anti-'Pay-for-Slay' law

Israel's anti-"Pay-for-Slay" law says the state must deduct the amount of money that the PA pays terrorists and families of what they call "martyrs" from the tax revenue that Israel gives the PA.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York City, New York, U.S.

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