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Jerusalem Execution Office Recently Collected ₪258 Million for Families of Terror Victims and Hostilities, Following Seizures of Palestinian Authority Funds at the Ministry of Finance.
Israel's Enforcement and Collection Authority collected ₪258 million for terror victims' families by garnishing Palestinian Authority funds.
The Enforcement and Collection Authority’s execution system collects, among other things, charges from court judgments, including compensatory and punitive damages awarded against terrorists who committed acts of hostility, for the benefit of the families of victims of terror and fallen soldiers.
The collection proceedings from terrorists serving lengthy prison sentences are not simple. However, when the Palestinian Authority pays them stipends, these can be garnished in connection with the acts of terror committed. Following garnishments imposed in execution cases on the Palestinian Authority’s funds, in connection with the terrorists’ actions, NIS 258 million were recently paid from the Ministry of Finance to the Execution Office in Jerusalem. These substantial sums were Transferred to 125 execution cases, opened based on damages awarded in judgments from various courts, and their distribution to the legal representatives of the families of victims of hostility and terror has been completed.
The funds collected as a result of garnishing the Palestinian Authority’s funds were paid to execution cases opened due to Terror incidents, including the attack on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem in 2001, in which 11 people were murdered. In connection with this severe terror incident, a judgment was issued in 2024 against the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization, awarding damages for losses incurred by the estates of the murdered, under the Terror Victims Compensation Law, in the amount of NIS 10 million.
Another execution case to which funds were paid was opened due to a judgment for compensation of terror victims, following a suicide bombing in the Beit Israel neighborhood in 2002 carried out by the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, in which ten civilians were murdered, including six children.
Funds were also transferred to the families of those murdered in the suicide bombing on bus line 32 at the Pata Junction in Jerusalem, which occurred in 2002 and in which 19 people were murdered and 74 were injured, as well as to the families of those murdered in the suicide bombing at Hillel Cafe in Jerusalem in 2003, where a Palestinian terrorist murdered seven Israelis and injured 57.
Further funds from these garnishments were transferred to the cases of families of victims of a suicide bombing on bus line 19 in Jerusalem in 2004, carried out by a Palestinian police officer, in which 11 people were murdered and 44 were injured, and to the families of victims of the shooting attack at Sarona Market in Tel Aviv in 2016, carried out by two Palestinian terrorists in the Sarona complex in Tel Aviv. In the attack, four people were murdered and 21 were injured.
Funds were also transferred to the families of those murdered in the suicide bombing at Cafe Moment, which occurred in 2002 in the Rehavia neighborhood of Jerusalem, in which 11 Israeli civilians were murdered and 65 were injured, as well as to the families of those murdered in the suicide bombing that occurred in 2001 on Egged bus line number 16 in Haifa, in which 15 civilians were killed and 40 civilians were injured. Funds were also transferred to the families of victims of the ramming attack on the Armon Hanatziv promenade, carried out by an Arab terrorist residing in the Jabel Mukaber neighborhood of East Jerusalem, to the families of victims of a ramming attack that occurred in 2019 near Mevo Dotan, and to the families of victims of the shooting attack at the Ali gas station in 2023.
