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Source: https://jcfa.org/why-does-the-pa-fund-terrorists-instead-of-building-hospitals/
Why Does the PA Fund Terrorists Instead of Building Hospitals?
(Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs) Lt.-Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch - For the past 20 years, the Palestinian Authority, in complete breach of the Oslo Accords, has built a massive terror army. The number of members of the PA Security Forces (PASF) has ballooned to five times the agreed size. According to PA budget reports, from 2008 through 2025, the PA spent over $20 billion on salaries and social benefits for PASF members. Had the PA complied with its commitments, it could have saved $16 billion in salaries. To this day, the PA does not have a modern and professional hospital, and still sends thousands of Palestinians every year to receive medical treatment in Israel. The additional money paid to cover the salaries of the PA's army could have been used to build hospitals and improve the health care of Palestinians. In the same way that Hamas spent hundreds of millions of dollars building the Gazan terror tunnels instead of developing the "Gazan Riviera," the PA in Judea and Samaria has spent over $16 billion building a terror army, rather than providing for the basic needs of the Palestinians. The writer, former director of the Military Prosecution in Judea and Samaria, is director of the Palestinian Authority Accountability Initiative at the Jerusalem Center.