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The Palestinian Authority, nearing economic collapse, has maintained salaries to insurgents, including would-be suicide attackers, captured by Israel. In a report, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) cited a Palestinian detainee who said he planned an attack in the Jewish state to help pay his debts...

"'The Palestinian Authority and Fatah condemned Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense that aimed at destroying Hamas’ terror infrastructure in the Gaza Strip,' PMW, which has testified in the U.S. Congress, said in a bulletin dated Dec. 13. 'It never once condemned Hamas’ rocket attacks on..."

"The Palestinian Authority has reported an increase in the killing of Arab women by their relatives in the West Bank. Officials have reported a campaign to influence Palestinians to oppose so-called honor killings, the targeting of women accused of sexual misbehavior, according to a special report..."