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Source: http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=21336
PA Planning to Hide Payments to Terrorists
(Palestinian Media Watch) Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik - The Palestinian Authority is planning to hide its $300 million a year in payments to terrorist prisoners and the families of "martyrs" by continuing to reward terror but in a different framework, according to Palestinian sources. Hassan Asfour, a former PA minister, told the independent Palestinian news website Fatah Voice on June 3, 2017: "Abbas, despite his initial objection, has begun to examine practical options to comply with the American demand. Among these...is the option of transferring the prisoners' and martyrs' salaries to a 'social insurance' body so that it will look as if it is 'humanitarian and social aid to needy families' and not 'monthly salaries to fighter families.'"