The Palestinian Authority continues its “Pay-for-Slay” program under a different name and with a different system of payment. Terrorists and the families of dead terrorists still receive generous monthly subsidies based on how deadly were their acts of terrorism, not on their financial need, as would happen if this were merely a welfare program. Christine Douglass-Williams wrote about this here, and more can be found here: “Israeli FM Gideon Sa’ar: Palestinian Authority ‘never stopped’ terror,” Jerusalem Post, October 27, 2025:
“Contrary to the Palestinian Authority’s promises in English, it continues the policy of paying salaries to terrorists,” Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said on Monday after meeting Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó in Budapest.
“The PA rewards Palestinian terrorists, including Hamas members with Jewish blood on their hands, both those in prison and those released, for example, in the recent deal. The PA never stopped paying the salaries to terrorists. It only changed the method. On Monday, the terrorists receive the money from Palestinian post office branches,” he said.
Sa’ar added, “Instead of demanding accountability from the PA, the European Union whitewashes it. They ignore the ongoing crime of paying terrorists and, in practice, encourage terror. They seek to reward the PA with a state of its own. President Trump’s 20-point plan stated clearly that there will be no legitimacy for the PA without real reforms.
It said the PA must take all necessary steps for the immediate cessation of paying salaries to terrorists imprisoned in Israel and to the families of terrorists who were killed. To this day, the PA has failed to meet those criteria. I call on responsible and moral European leaders to follow Hungary’s example. Hold the PA to account. Stop paying salaries to terrorists now.”
The Jerusalem Post has already reported that a watchdog alleges the PA quietly continued such payments. On Sunday, Palestinian Media Watch said stipends to security prisoners and to families of “martyrs” were paid through PA post offices on Saturday morning, without an official announcement, and recipients reported receiving 50% of the monthly amount, in line with partial salaries paid to PA civil servants amid a fiscal crunch.
The Pay-For-Slay subsidies have temporarily been cut in half, not out of moral qualms or geopolitical calculations, but only because all PA employees have had their salaries decreased as a result of the Trump administration’s cutoff in American support to the PA.
The watchdog published messages from recipients and traced a two-week timeline of protests and unofficial guidance that post offices would open on Saturday for the transfers.
European capitals have recently praised PA “reforms.” On September 25, France said it “welcomes the reforms already underway by the Palestinian Authority, including the abrogation of the prisoners’ payment system, which is now effective.”
Earlier, on June 23, the European Commission pledged €150 million in budgetary support to help the PA pay public-sector salaries as part of a reform-linked package….
Abbas has fooled both France and the European Commission, which are praising nonexistent “reforms” that they think include an end to “Pay-For-Slay” for imprisoned terrorists. It has not been ended; its name has changed, and so has the method of payment, which is now through post offices. But the subsidies remain the same, both in how they are calculated and to whom they are given.
Abbas simply renamed the stipends provided by “Pay-For-Slay” to imprisoned terrorists and the families of terrorists killed while carrying out their attacks, as “welfare payments,” and changed the way the stipends were distributed, no longer sent directly to recipients but to be picked up at PA post offices by the recipients or, in the case of imprisoned terrorists, by their agents. This was intended to fool the West that the “Pay-For-Slay”payments had ended. They have not.
The PA has long argued the transfers are social-welfare support for families of prisoners and those killed, while Israel and numerous Western lawmakers say the policy incentivizes violence.
If these generous subsidies were merely “social welfare” payments, then they would also be provided to Palestinians who have no connection to terrorism. But they are not. Those Palestinians receive considerably less than the “Pay-For-Slay” recipients. Furthermore, the amounts the “Pay-For-Slay” recipients receive is based on the severity of their attacks: the more Israelis killed or wounded by a terrorist, the greater the subsidy he, or his family if he was killed, receives from the Palestinian Authority.
Muhammad famously said that “war is deception.” How easy it has been for Mahmoud Abbas to deceive the Western donors who apparently believe his claim that he has ended “Pay-For-Slay.” They need to look at just how much the former “Pay-For-Slay” recipients now receive after the PA’s “reforms.” They will discover, to their own shame and chagrin, that both the recipients, and the amounts they now receive, remain unchanged.
Mark Conley says
Its a shame that President Trump was so determined to get a deal done in the Middle East that neither he nor any Western governments, except Israel, have the integrity to call out these serious violations.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
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OLD GUY says
You can NEVER trust the P.A. or any other muslim/islamic leaders.