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 denies reports it will accept tax revenue from Israel again this month

The PA began refusing to receive the funds earlier this year when Israel began deducting payments to terrorists and their families from tax revenues.

Palestinian women walk past a money changer in the West Bank city of Ramallah February 16, 2010. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman/File Photo

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