EU signs trade and cooperation agreement with the PLOPA ambassador to the EU signs “temporary European-Mediterranean partnership agreement for trade and cooperation between the EU and the PLO”Mar 4, 2021
EU pledges 20 million euros in aid money "to the State of Palestine”The EU announced that it would be donating 20 million euros "to aid Palestine in obtaining the needed Coronavirus vaccines"Feb 25, 2021
EU promises €20 million in aid money to Gaza while Qatar pledges a $60 million donationPA Prime Minister thanked Qatar for their $60 million donation and the EU for an additional €20 million, which will be used to "extend gas pipelines inside Israel to reach the Gaza Strip” Feb 24, 2021
PA minister asks international community for $1 billion in annual donations to fund the PA budgetIsrael is "exploiting the clauses" of the Paris Agreement alleges PA minister of finance, thus demanding "to convene an international committee to amend the economic Paris Agreement with Israel"Feb 24, 2021
Britain signs 15 million pound trade agreement with the PAThe British government agrees to supply the PA with 15 million pounds as part of a "cooperation agreement, to support trade and strengthen the role of the private sector”Feb 17, 2021
PA tells the UN it will not relinquish its “legitimate right” to pay terrorists in exchange for international humanitarian aidPA Minister of Social Development tells UN representative that the PA will not "relinquish our legitimate rights" to fund terrorism "in exchange for aid", and calls the international effort to stop terror salaries “an attempt to politicize the humanitarian aid which harms and threatens human rights”Feb 3, 2021
PA instructs banks not to close terrorist prisoners’ accounts, works to incorporate released terrorists into PA institutions“We’ll talk with the banks and take a position against closing any existing account… Starting from Jan. 1, [2021], we paid [salaries] two months in advance”Jan 21, 2021
PA Monetary Authority’ Governor resigns just in time for the Bank of Palestine to freeze terrorist’s accounts in compliance with Israeli law, leaving some suspicious of the former governorPalestinian banks are worried about “being persecuted, having their branches closed, and having their money confiscated” if they don’t freeze terrorist’s bank accountsJan 6, 2021
Palestinian banks in Judea and Samaria freeze the accounts of Palestinian terrorists and martyrs following Israeli decision to render banks liable to punishment for facilitating PA terror salariesQuds reports that “A number of Palestinian factions including the DFLP, PLO, and the PFLP attacked this unilateral measures taken by the banks operating in Palestine”Jan 5, 2021
Palestinian banks freeze terrorist’s accounts under new Israeli law. Palestinians express anger that there’s an “absence of any kind of solution for the payment of the salaries” to terrorists PA plans to open an “Independence Bank” or “absorb released prisoners into the PA institutions in order to pay their salaries” never materialized, leaving terrorists fearing for their incomeJan 5, 2021
PA to pay three months pay for slay salaries to terrorists The Palestinian Authority (PA) intends to pay convicted terrorists three months worth of "salary" before the end of the year, according to Palestinian Media Watch (PMW). The PA holds a practice of paying Palestinians that have committed terrorist acts against Israelis and monthly stipends to the...Dec 30, 2020
EU gives the PA 76 million shekels to help Palestinian familiesThe PA gave 136,151,268 shekels to poor Palestinian families, 56% of which was money donated by the EUDec 21, 2020
PA Prime Minister says foreign aid donations will be used for projects rather than to fix the deficit in the PA budgetPrime Minister Shtayyeh thanks Europe for copious financial donations, and states that "there remains a deficit of $730 million in the PA general budget, but this aid money has been allocated to projects and not to aiding the budget”Dec 18, 2020
The UN is joined by “More than 200 organizations” to raise 417 million dollars to bring aid to 1.8 Palestinians"Prolonged military rule, insufficient respect for Palestinians” and “settler violence” are amongst the reasons for raising $417 million for PalestiniansDec 16, 2020
PA’s scheme to bypass donors’ demand to stop terrorist salaries: Released terrorists to become public employees"to absorb all the released prisoners so there will be no released prisoner who receives his salary as a released prisoner. No. [Instead] he is an employee like all the [public] employees."Dec 5, 2020
Min. of Edu on PA curriculum: “We won’t trade our sovereign decision for any kind of financial support”Official PA TV program Topic of the Day PA Minister of Education Marwan Awratani: The teacher is the pioneer in this field. On the global level, the [Palestinian] teacher constitutes an inspiring example for what is called “resistance education” … Ever since Palestine developed the first national...Dec 4, 2020
PA: “Wave the rifle… we will not cast our weapons from our hands” - a song that “fascinates us with values”O our people, wave the rifle, wave the rifle… No one will force the solution on usNov 30, 2020
PA vows not to change terrorist salaries into social welfare, released terrorists are absorbed into PA Sec. Forces"The prisoners are a sacred issue that can’t be touched. Let no one think that it will be transferred to the other institutions – the humanitarian ones or the [PA Ministry of] Social Affairs."Nov 27, 2020
Germany pledges 56 million euros to Palestine for “essential projects and sectors which have priority for the [PA] government”PA says Germany’s money will go to projects in “the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and Jerusalem”Nov 26, 2020
PA Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh thanks Norway for their $7.5 million grantNorway donated money to the PA, to “cover problems that are at the top of the PA’s list of priorities”Nov 24, 2020
Top PA official: PA will maintain and even better the rights of imprisoned and released terroristsRajoub: "I emphasize to them [the prisoners] - in no way will any decision be made that detracts from any right they receive today"Nov 23, 2020
PA to establish new bank to pay terror rewardsDirector of PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs Qadri Abu Bakr: “[The New York Times] published it, and [so did] the Israeli papers. Unfortunately we [Palestinians] have adjusted to them and repeated the same things…"Nov 23, 2020
Campaign is launched to oppose monetary aid to Palestine with anti-terror conditions attachedPalestinian National Campaign seeks to "refuse any concessions, and begin dialogue with funders to cancel political conditions on funding" in a move to reject aid money that has anti-terror clauses, stating that " the campaign is already negotiating with three funders to reject all political conditions on their funding"Nov 12, 2020
Biden "promises" to fund Palestinians, support BDS and open democratic US-Palestine institutionsUS Palestinian Council Vice President says "Biden promises to restore funding to UNRWA and Palestinian people; open a Palestinian representation in Washington; reopen the American consulate in Jerusalem; and participate in the BDS anti-Israel boycott campaign in the US"Nov 7, 2020
PA receives roughly $200 million in foreign aidPA Prime Minister outlines several projects in the sectors of health, education, youth, and poverty, which will utilize millions of dollars worth of donated aid moneyOct 7, 2020