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Palestinian Authority Gives Even More Money to Released Terrorist Millionaires
M-16 shirt glorifying Palestinian terrorism. Photo: Palestinian Media Watch.
According to Palestinian Authority (PA) Government Decision No. 15 of 2013, released terrorists are given a release grant that can be as high as $25,000.
The amount depends on the time each terrorist spent in Israeli prison — meaning, the worse the crime and the longer the sentence, the higher the grant.
The picture below shows a smiling released Palestinian terrorist posing with his check from Mahmoud Abbas.
The text on the envelope reads: “A grant from President Mahmoud Abbas”
[PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs, Facebook page, Jan. 30, 2025]
Some of the worst recently released terrorists were expelled to Egypt. It was at a ceremony there that the prisoners posed for pictures showing off the additional money they were given by Abbas.
The PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs made sure to publish the pictures on its Facebook page to let Palestinians know that terrorists are so important that they continue receiving money even after leaving prison. In total, the PA is paying out an additional $5,352,500 to the released terrorists.
This terror reward is in addition to the monthly rewards the PA pays prisoners while in jail.
Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) recently exposed that at least 316 terrorist prisoners released in the ongoing exchange deal between Israel and Hamas leave prison as millionaires (in shekels). This wealth has been generously provided to them as “Pay-for-Slay” by the PA for their terror against Israelis. The 734 terrorists being released in the first part of the deal have received at least 506,385,600 shekels ($142,353,110).
PMW reported last year that since 2019, the PA has not had enough money to pay its civil servants and has been paying them only between 50%-80% each month.
Paying out millions now to released terrorists, including hundreds of murderers, again shows the importance that the PA places on terror.
Last week, PA leader Mahmoud Abbas issued an ambiguous presidential decree changing the way terrorists in prison are paid. Terrorist prisoners and families of terrorist “Martyrs” will continue to receive monthly payments but within a different framework. PMW will be reporting more as details come to light.
Posted text: “During the meeting with the released prisoners today [Jan. 30, 2025,] in Egypt and the distribution of [release] grants from His Honor [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas, in the presence of the [PLO] Commission of Prisoners’ [Affairs], the Palestinian [PA-funded] Prisoners’ Club, and the embassy of the State of Palestine in Egypt.” [emphasis added]
[PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs, Facebook page, Jan. 30, 2025]
The author is the Founder and Executive Director of Palestinian Media Watch, where a version of this article first appeared.
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Says Trump Is Lying When He Speaks of Peace
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with government officials in Tehran, Iran, April 15, 2025. Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused Donald Trump on Saturday of lying when the US president said during his Gulf tour this week that he wanted peace in the region.
On the contrary, said Khamenei, the United States uses its power to give “10-ton bombs to the Zionist (Israeli) regime to drop on the heads of Gaza’s children.”
Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One after departing the United Arab Emirates on Friday that Iran had to move quickly on a US proposal for its nuclear program or “something bad’s going to happen.”
His remarks, said Khamenei, “aren’t even worth responding to.” They are an “embarrassment to the speaker and the American people,” Khamenei added.
“Undoubtedly, the source of corruption, war, and conflict in this region is the Zionist regime — a dangerous, deadly cancerous tumor that must be uprooted; it will be uprooted,” he said at an event at a religious center in Tehran, according to state media.
Earlier on Saturday, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Trump speaks about peace while simultaneously making threats.
“Which should we believe?” Pezeshkian said at a naval event in Tehran. “On the one hand, he speaks of peace and on the other, he threatens with the most advanced tools of mass killing.”
Tehran would continue Iran-US nuclear talks but is not afraid of threats. “We are not seeking war,” Pezeshkian said.
While Trump said on Friday that Iran had a US proposal about its nuclear program, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi in a post on X said Tehran had not received any such proposal. “There is no scenario in which Iran abandons its hard-earned right to (uranium) enrichment for peaceful purposes…” he said.
Araqchi warned on Saturday that Washington’s constant change of stance prolongs nuclear talks, state TV reported.
“It is absolutely unacceptable that America repeatedly defines a new framework for negotiations that prolongs the process,” the broadcast quoted Araqchi as saying.
Pezeshkian said Iran would not “back down from our legitimate rights”.
“Because we refuse to bow to bullying, they say we are source of instability in the region,” he said.
A fourth round of Iran-U.S. talks ended in Oman last Sunday. A new round has not been scheduled yet.
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Hamas Confirms New Gaza Ceasefire Talks with Israel in Qatar on Saturday
Doha, Qatar. Photo: StellarD via Wikimedia Commons.
A new round of Gaza ceasefire negotiations between Hamas and Israel is underway in Qatar’s Doha, Hamas official Taher al-Nono told Reuters on Saturday.
He said the two sides were discussing all issues without “pre-conditions.”
Nono said Hamas was “keen to exert all the effort needed” to help mediators make the negotiations a success, adding there was “no certain offer on the table.”
The negotiations come despite Israel preparing to expand operations in the Gaza Strip as they seek “operational control” in some areas of the war-torn enclave.
The return to negotiations also comes after US President Donald Trump ended a Middle East tour on Friday with no apparent progress towards a new ceasefire, although he acknowledged Gaza’s growing hunger crisis and the need for aid deliveries.
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Report: ICC’s Khan Goes on Administrative Leave Amid Sexual Misconduct Probe
International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan speaks during an interview with Reuters in The Hague, Netherlands, Feb. 12, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw
i24 News – Chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim Khan has stepped down temporarily as an investigation into his alleged sexual misconduct by United Nations investigators is nearing its final phase, Reuters reported on Friday citing sources from the international court.
Khan allegedly forced sexual intercourse upon a member of staff on multiple occasions, the Wall Street Journal reported last week, linking the allegations to Khan’s decision to issue arrest warrants for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-defense minister Yoav Gallant.
A statement is expected later today announcing that Khan is going on administrative leave, according to a source in the prosecutor’s office.
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