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Source: http://www.idf.il/newsite/english/pa.stm
International Financial Aid to the Palestinian Authority Redirected to Terrorist Elements
(Israel Defense Forces) - The international community has so far invested $4.5 billion in the PA in order to establish infrastructures and an organized civil society. The PA uses a double reporting system for paying the salaries of its employees, claiming that it requires about $60 million a month when it actually needs only about 60% of this sum. The main source for PA salaries is international aid money. The PA financed dozens of Fatah branches to establish a broad infrastructure of field activists who became armed local militias. Fatah elements are allocated $5-10 million per month for expenses in the confrontation against Israel. Marwan Barghouti, head of Fatah/Tanzim in the West Bank, directed the murderous attacks of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. PLO veterans employed in PLO representations abroad, some of whom enjoy diplomatic immunity, intensively aid in arms procurement operations and smuggling to the West Bank and Gaza Strip.