The Palestinian Authority will pay the families of the 1,500 dead Hamas terrorists who carried out the brutal massacre in Israel almost $3 million just this month, the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) watchdog group reported.

According to PA law, every terrorist who is killed in “the line of duty” i.e. attacking Israelis, is categorized as a “martyr” and the family receives an immediate grant of NIS 6,000 ($1,511) and a NIS 1,400 ($353) per month allowance for life, with the funds for terrorists who were married and had children even higher. In total, the PA will be distributing at least 11,100,000 shekels ($2,789,430) this month for the atrocities committed against Israelis – men, women, and children – and foreign nationals.

And don’t be fooled. Abbas’s statement, which was made only under intense international pressure, that “Hamas’ policy and actions do not represent the Palestinian people” was deleted from the official WAFA website a few hours later and replaced with the following statement: “The PLO is… the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people – and not the policy of any other organization.”

In fact, senior Fatah official Abbas Zaki told Lebanese TV that there was “intense pressure [on Abbas], and Blinken even demanded before he met with him that there be a condemnation.”

Additionally, the 50 Hamas animals who carried out the massacre and were captured alive by Israeli security forces will begin receiving monthly salaries in prison starting at NIS 1,400 a month which will eventually rise to NIS 12,000 a month, with married terrorists with children receiving higher salaries, PMW reported. These terrorists will receive at least NIS 70,000 ($17,590) this month alone.

In total, the PA will pay at least 11,170,000 shekels ($2,807,021) in “Pay For Slay” funds to the Hamas terrorists this month. And the amount will rise as the war has just begun and more Palestinians will be added to the list of “martyrs” and prisoners. The funds are in addition to the over NIS 100,000,000 a month the PA already pays in salaries to imprisoned terrorists and the families of “martyrs.”

The report concluded by stating that “the Palestinian Authority should be sending a big thank you to the EU countries and Norway, currently the largest funders of the PA because the PA could not possibly make these terror payments without them. These donor countries like to pretend that it’s not their money rewarding terrorists, but everyone knows that the PA could not reward terrorists without this generous foreign funding. When payments to teachers, police, and street cleaners are taken care of by international donors, the PA has the hundreds of millions available it needs to pay for terror.”

“An honorable partnership.”

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)