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Source: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-896389
Abbas Complains that Funds Withheld by Israel Are Needed to Pay Terrorist Salaries
(Jerusalem Post) Danielle Greyman-Kennard - During a speech at the Eighth General Conference of Fatah, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas admitted that tax funds being withheld by Israel would be used to fund Palestinian terrorists. The comments confirm that the PA has not ended its pay-for-slay policy. Palestinian Media Watch director Itamar Marcus told the Jerusalem Post that Abbas's admission must have "significant international implications." "To justify continued funding of the PA, Western countries have been denying PMW findings that pay-for-slay continues, and have accepted Abbas's lies that it stopped funding terrorists in September 2025," he explained. "Israel will be wise if it uses this video to put pressure on the Western countries to stop funding PA terror and to withhold their recognition of a Palestinian state, which France and others conditioned on the PA's promise to end pay-for-slay." $156 million was paid out to terrorists and their families in 2025, according to a U.S. State Department report published in April 2026.