Pay for slay

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

Last year, Palestinian public sector employees did not receive their wages for May until July, and in September 2025, the PA confirmed that workers would be guaranteed only 50% of their wages.

 PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY leader Mahmoud Abbas addresses PA officials in Ramallah.
Ahlam Tamimi waves as she arrives at Queen Alia international airport in Amman, late October 18, 2011.

Father of child murdered in Sbarro bombing slams Jordan, demands terrorist extradited - interview

Children return to school at an establishment run by United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) in Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus in the West Bank on August 29, 2018.

Tackling terror indoctrination in Palestinian schools key to ending 'Pay-for-Slay,' panelists say

Palestinians protest against a law passed by the Knesset imposing the death penalty for terrorists who murder Israeli civilians, in the West Bank city of Nablus, April 19, 2026.

Released Palestinian terrorists demand right to return to West Bank, Egypt


Palestinians pay partial wages after Israel transfers tax revenue to PA

The Palestinian foreign minister estimated that Israel has been withholding $500 million of tax revenues due to the PA's pay-for-slay policy.

 Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas speaks during a meeting with journalists in the West Bank cityof Ramallah on July 03, 2019.

Israeli taxes not used for Palestinian terror payments, FADC head says

The FADC held a debate on the source of an Israeli loan of NIS 500 million to the PA last year to offset financial harm from the absence of withheld taxes.

 Committee Chairman Ram Ben Barak leads a Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on November 15, 2021.

'Pay-for-slay' Abbas takes his cue from 'Iran-Deal' Blinken - opinion

PA President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the last week's terror attacks in a rare move that shouldn't be cause for optimism.

 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and PA President Mahmoud Abbas.

Bankrolling terrorism and moral equivalence - opinion

The families of the three terrorists killed on Tuesday by Israeli forces will be handsomely paid monthly stipends from now on.

 PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas attends a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi, last month

The Sisyphean attempt to curb Palestinian ‘martyrdom’ - opinion

With internal American and Israeli politics being as divided as they are, it’s going to take a lot more than a congressional bill to keep would-be “martyrs” at bay.

 A knife used in a stabbing in Jerusalem's Old City that injured two Border Policemen on November 17, 2021.

Taylor Force Act addition seeks to block 'pay for slay'

“Such flouting of anti-terrorism financial regulations is only possible through the maintenance or use of correspondent accounts at United States banks.”

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee nomination hearing for Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX), on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 5, 2020

Israel won't thwart two states, minister tells int'l parley on Palestinians

"My dream is to see my country in peace with my people," Regional Cooperation Minister Esawi Frej told an international donor parley in Oslo.

 Participants of Wednesday's Ad Hoc Liaison Committee in Oslo

Palestinian financial crisis at 'breaking point,' UN envoy warns

UN envoy Tor Wennesland: "Estimates suggest that the PA will have a 2021 budget deficit of around $800 million."

 A child waves a flag as demonstrators take part in a protest in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, in Ramallah in the West Bank September 8, 2021.

Biden envoy talked with PA about dropping ‘pay for slay’

Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Israel and Palestinian Affairs Hady Amr discussed "payments to individuals imprisoned for acts of terrorism" with Israeli and Palestinian officials.

Palestinian prisoners wait to be released from Ketziot prison, southern Israel, October 1, 2007

Gov't to deduct NIS 597m. from Palestinian Authority over ‘pay for slay’

The National Bureau for Counter-Terror Financing said NIS 597m. was the sum of PA funds that went to indirect support for terror in 2020.

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