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Wednesday . 24 December . 2025
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PA Continues Terrorist Payments, Disguised as ‘Pensions’

Israel's Foreign Ministry reveals the PA continues 'Pay-for-Slay' by disguising terrorist payments as pensions for released prisoners and families of killed.

Ni Gil Tanenbaum Breaking News

Jerusalem, 24 December, 2025 (TPS-IL) — Israel’s Foreign Ministry revealed that the Palestinian Authority (PA) did not cease making payments to terrorists and their families. It simply changed how such payments are made – by calling the funds “pensions.” Israel’s Foreign Minister dubbed this ‘Pay-for-Slay.’”

These payments are made to the families of terrorists held in Israeli jails and to the terrorists themselves when released from prison. They are also paid out to the families of terrorists who were killed in the course of their activities.

“The Palestinian Authority didn’t end payments to terrorists,” said the Foreign Ministry. “It camouflaged them. Money to released terrorists is now funneled through so-called ‘pensions’ tied to the Palestinian Security Services.”

“This isn’t reform,” it added. “It’s deliberate deception, Pay-for-Slay by another name.”

Israel’s Foreign Minister placed the blame squarely on the shoulders of palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, saying that he “admits that ‘loyalty’ to the sacrifices of Palestinian ‘martyrs,’ prisoners and wounded (all terrorists) and their families is a ‘national Palestinian commitment.’”

Sa’ar further charged that Abbas did so while “continuing to lie about ending the PA’s distorted policy of paying salaries to these despicable terrorists and their families. Instead of ending all payments, he’s disguising many of them as payments to pensioners and salaries of the PA Security Services.”

The Foreign Minister demanded that the international hold the PA accountable for “Pay for Slay.”

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