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Source: http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/9305.htm
Palestinian Authority Using U.S. Aid Money to Pay Hamas Members Who Killed U.S. Citizens
(MEMRI) Yigal Carmon - Yigal Carmon, President of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), told the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs on July 6 that in the Oslo Accords, Yasser Arafat made a commitment, on behalf of the Palestinian people to stop all terrorist activity. Yet the PA gives financial and other support to those who have continued their terrorist activities. By providing this support, the PA is encouraging terrorism in violation of its Oslo commitment. Furthermore, by using money granted by donor countries, the PA has made them complicit in encouraging terrorism as well. The 2016 PA budget allocates $172,534,733 for families of martyrs. Such payments are given to families of people from all the various Palestinian organizations that continue to commit acts of terrorism, constituting the deliberate encouragement of terrorism. This means the Hamas members who perpetrated the August 9, 2001, attack on the Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem that killed 15, including seven children, and the July 31, 2002, attack on the cafeteria of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem that killed nine, four of whom were U.S. citizens, receive these allowances. Thus, the PA is paying Hamas members who killed U.S. citizens and the funds for this come from donor countries, including the U.S.