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Families of Suicide Bombers Given 5M Pounds in British Aid Cash

(Daily Mail-UK) Matthew Kalman - The Palestinian Authority, which gets 86 million pounds of British aid a year, has authorized payments of almost 5 million pounds to the families of "martyrs." Another 3 million pounds has been given to 5,500 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails. According to the official Palestinian daily newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, payments to the families of "martyrs" - those killed fighting Israel, including suicide bombers - totaled 3.5 percent of the PA budget. Tory MP Philip Davies called the payments "ludicrous." He added: "People think overseas aid is to try to alleviate terrible poverty in places where they can't afford to look after themselves. But it's being put to these kind of purposes."
2011-08-08 00:00:00
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