Pay for slay

Pay-for-slay: Could the Palestinian Authority be held legally liable for October 7?

LEGAL AFFAIRS: Thousands of plaintiffs are taking the PA to court, arguing that its financial and employment policies toward convicted terrorists create a link to the Hamas massacre.

PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY President Mahmoud Abbas. Thousands of October 7 victims and their families are seeking to hold the PA civilly liable, arguing that its long-standing prisoner payment and employment policies helped sustain terrorists who return to violence.
This picture shows the headquarters of Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Jerusalem affairs in the occupied West Bank town of al-Ram, near Jerusalem, on November 4, 2018;illustrative

US judge allows terror victims' lawsuit against PA, PLO over 'pay-for-slay' to proceed- interview

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the general Conference of Fatah Youth in Ramallah, with a backdrop including a portrait of Abbas and Yasser Arafat, November 27, 2025; illustrative.

EU, World Bank funds saved Palestinian Authority from economic collapse, INSS finds

 PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY leader Mahmoud Abbas addresses PA officials in Ramallah.

Palestinian Authority promises public workers 50% wage, commits to repayment following strike


Ohana orders seizure of NIS 4.2m. from the Palestinian Authority

This is the first time that a justice minister has taken such things into his own hands.

Amir Ohana at a special cabinet meeting in the Golan Heights

Bennett signs order preventing Israeli terrorists receiving 'pay-for-slay' money

"This is another step in the campaign against terrorists, we are working so that Jewish blood will no longer be financially lucrative," the Defense Minister said.

Defense Minister Naftali Bennett during a recent visit to the Syrian border

Israeli NGO to gov’t: Tax Arab Israeli terrorists on pay-for-slay income

The PA pays Arabs living in the territories and Israeli Arabs monthly salaries for murdering Israeli soldiers and civilians.

Shekel money bills

PMW: Palestinian values include murdering Israelis on their way to pray

Halabi was honored by the PA, with a street named after him and a monument in his honor being erected in Abu Qash and a street being named after him.

A woman lights a candle in memory of Eitam and Na'ama Henkin who were shot dead on Thursday and Aharon Bennett and Nehemia Lavi who were stabbed to death by a Palestinian man in Jerusalem's Old City on Saturday

A-G: families who receive 'pay for slay' payments forfeit state benefits

Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit has urged the National Labor Court to reject a family's request for state benefits while receiving of 'pay for slay' payments.

Protest in front of Labor Court

NGO to Israeli gov't: Withhold NIS 241m. more in terror money from PA

In February, the government deducted NIS 502m., the amount the PA paid to terrorist prisoners in 2018. However, no announcement has been made since then regarding the sum paid to the families.

Worshippers at Kehillat Bnei Torah Synagogue in Har Nof‏

Palestinian Authority spent NIS 7b. to fund terror - report

Palestinian Media Watch published a financial report of the Palestinian Authority based on its own financial records for the years 2011 – 2018.

PA PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas – ‘He makes threats and engages in fiery rhetoric as part of a strategy to appease the Palestinian public.’

Shtayyeh: We received NIS 1.5 billion from Israel

"Crisis surrounding tax revenues remains unresolved"

Mohammad Shtayyeh gestures during a Palestinian leadership meeting in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank February 20, 2019.

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.