PA demands Israel release Palestinian prisoners to protect them from Coronavirus; financial situation uncertain"The prime minister demanded that the occupation authorities release all of the prisoners"Mar 15, 2020
PA PM: Regarding terror salaries, “the government will remain loyal to all of the commitments” that Abbas has promised"The government will remain loyal to all of the commitments that [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas has promised."Nov 5, 2019
PA PM conveys Abbas’ “blessings” to imprisoned terrorists’ families"The Palestinian leadership will continue to support the prisoners' cause"Oct 23, 2019
PA PM: Financial crisis over salaries for terrorists continues, we insist on receiving all our money"The financial crisis with the Israeli side still exists"Oct 15, 2019
PA PM: PA remains committed to paying terrorists' salaries"The [PA] government would remain committed to paying the monthly allowances of the families of martyrs and prisoners"Oct 7, 2019
PA PM: “We will continue our commitment to the salaries of the Martyrs and the prisoners”"We have remained loyal and paid in full what all the prisoners and Martyrs deserve"Oct 7, 2019
Terrorists and their families’ salaries paid in full, civil employees get 60%"The allowances of the families of the Martyrs, the wounded, and the prisoners will be paid in full"Oct 2, 2019
PA PM: Israel must stop “theft” of PA tax transfers, international community must investigate"The theft of our money must stop."Sep 28, 2019
PA PM complains to World Bank about Israeli “Pay-for-slay” tax deductions"Shtayyeh discusses the Israeli deductions from the tax money with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund"Sep 17, 2019
PA PM reiterates Abbas' policy on terror salaries: “We will remain loyal to the families of the Martyrs and the prisoners until the last penny”"As Abbas has said, we will remain loyal to the families of the Martyrs and the prisoners until the last penny."Sep 8, 2019
PA PM: Public employees will receive 60% of the month’s salary in addition to 50% for past cuts, due to financial crisis over terror salaries“Shtayyeh: The [PA] public employees’ salaries will be paid at a rate of 110%”Aug 23, 2019
PA PM: Israel and the US are destroying the chance for a Palestinian state; Salaries for prisoners was agreed upon in the Oslo Accords"We will continue to support the Martyrs’ families and the prisoners in the occupation’s prison"Aug 7, 2019
PA PM: US is trying to “blackmail” us, Israel “is waging an economic war” by deducting terror salary payments but this “will not cause us to deviate from our obligations and our loyalty” to terroristsShtayyeh: The US is blackmailing us so that we will agree to something that does not meet our minimum rights” Jul 17, 2019
PA PM: Dispute with Israel over terror salaries will lead to weakening of security forces"The tax dispute with Israel has caused a worsening of the current financial crisis"Jun 28, 2019
PA PM: US policies make Palestinians unable to agree to any deal; “Agreeing to [Israel’s tax] deductions is an implied admission of funding terrorism” "How it is possible to agree to this deal, while the steps [Trump] has implemented on the ground are worse than the expected phrasing of the deal of the century?"Jun 17, 2019
PA PM: PA forced to take loans from banks due to financial crisis, but “we will continue to be loyal to the families of the Martyrs and the prisoners”"Shtayyeh: The financial pressure is part of an Israeli war so that we will accept the deal of the century"Jun 6, 2019
PA PM: PA will pay full salaries of terrorists and their families by order of Abbas; PA employees get 60%"The government – despite the financial crisis and by order of Mahmoud Abbas – will pay the full salaries of the families of the Martyrs and the prisoners"May 28, 2019
PA PM: “We will not agree that our sons in the prisons be defined as terrorists”, PA takes loans from banks to pay terrorists’ salaries"We will not agree that our sons in the prisons be defined as terrorists and that it be said that we are funding terror."May 27, 2019
PA PM calls Israeli Arabs “our people in the 1948 territories”; Blasts US, “The Martyrs, prisoners, and their families are the priority, even if we are left with only one penny”“Shtayyeh: The families of the Martyrs and the prisoners are the priority, even if we are left with only one penny”May 23, 2019
Shtayyeh thanks public employees for accepting cut salaries, repeats Abbas is loyal to Martyrs’ blood and prisoners"Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas will remain loyal, and with him we will remain the most loyal... to the blood of the Martyrs and to our prisoners"May 23, 2019
PA Prime Minister demands that international community “pressure Israel to stop the deductions from the Palestinian tax money… in order to stop the policy of monetary theft that it is carrying out” Headline: “Shtayyeh demanded to create a monetary checking mechanism vis-à-vis Israel in order to stop its policy of theft”May 17, 2019
PA Prime Minister complains to Word Bank about Israel withholding PA tax revenues over salaries to terrorists“Premier calls on World Bank to have a say in Israel's withholding of Palestinian tax revenue”May 9, 2019
PA PM: Al-Aqsa is under attack, Israel has not found any Jewish artifacts there, we will remain loyal to Martyrs and prisonersShtayyeh: Today we are dealing with wars that the US and Israel have forced upon us"May 4, 2019
PA PM: We can’t accept tax deductions, prisoners are fighters, not terrorists who “sacrificed their blood for Palestine”"We will continue in our commitment towards our prisoners and towards our Martyrs"Apr 30, 2019
PA PM: Tax deductions over salaries, a financial war"Shtayyeh explained that part of the blackmail is being done through a financial war"Apr 27, 2019