Palestinian Authority Admits to ‘Pay for Slay’

As is well known, the Palestinian Authority provides generous monthly stipends to imprisoned terrorists and to the families of terrorists who died during their attacks. This is known as the PA’s “Pay For Slay” program. The PA has tried to hide it, by providing the payments under other names and for other, fabricated reasons (such as describing them as payments to the poor) and by urging members not to discuss it lest the cursed Israelis eavesdrop and record the remarks. The PA fears that evidence of the Pay-For-Slay program’s continuance could convince Western donors to cease their support. More on how one Palestinian commentator, while warning his audience not to discuss the program by name, nonetheless did exactly what he warned against. More on his comical slip-up is here: “Palestinian radio: Shh… Don’t admit Pay-for-Slay continues because PMW is listening,” by Ephraim D. Tepler and Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch, June 14, 2026:

…Since 2011, when Palestinian Media Watch exposed Pay-for-Slay—the PA policy of paying salaries to imprisoned terrorists and families of dead terrorists, PMW has been the world’s source for “gathering all the information” about the PA’s terror-reward program.

In other words, the PA is very concerned that PMW is watching, recording, and exposing it, as PA TV’s Israel Affairs expert Fayed Abbas said: “An extremist right-wing organization Palestinian Media Watch… is watching me now, recording me, and preparing reports.”

And yet, having just warned that it would be better not to say too much live on air, the radio host went ahead and said it anyway: A large part of the terrorists’ salaries has already been paid.

So much for the PA’s claims to donor countries that it has canceled or reformed Pay-for-Slay.

Al-Hurriyah Radio host: “Suhaila Al-Najjar asks: Is there no news about the prisoners’ (i.e., terrorists’) salaries?

Actually, there is. A large part [of the prisoners’ salaries] was paid through the banks. You can contact the relevant and responsible bodies. We don’t want to talk much about the subject live, because you know the Israelis (i.e., PMW) are trying to gather all the information. But I think that – it has already been published. There are reports that have reported on the prisoners’ salaries, and the relatives of the Martyrs and the families of the wounded – and I believe that a large part of it has already been paid.”

[Al-Hurriyah Radio, Facebook page, June 3, 2026]

This short exchange tells the whole story.

The PA has not stopped its terror salary program. It has simply become more careful, coded, and nervous about being exposed….

The same radio host on Al-Hurriyah who warned his audience not to talk about you-know-what because those damned Israelis are listening in, trying to get the goods on us about it, nonetheless spilled the beans himself just before he gave that warning.

Oopsy-daisy. The radio host made a frank admission that Pay-For-Slay is still going on, that much of what is due — those “salaries” — has now been paid, and you need only go to the relevant bank to collect. What was it those Palestinians keep forgetting? Loose lips sink ships. Or in their case, battleships.