Palestinian women prefer to marry wounded terrorists who receive a PA salary, rather than jobless university grads
Palestinians in Gaza are rioting because of "their preference to be wounded (and receive a PA allowance -Ed) rather than remain unemployed and without a livelihood"
Wounded Palestinian terrorists are popular as marriage material because of the lifetime monthly financial reward the Palestinian Authority is paying them.
On a program on official Palestinian Authority TV about young Palestinian women leaving the Gaza Strip due to the difficult financial situation, the TV host explained that young Palestinian women prefer marrying "wounded" men because they get a steady monthly salary from the PA, rather than marrying healthy university graduates who are unemployed:
Official PA TV host: "The young women have actually begun to prefer young men who, let's say, are wounded or have a wound, because in the end they have a monthly salary from the [PA] Ministry of Social Affairs, from the prisoners' institution, or from the institution for the wounded. For [the women], they [the wounded] are preferable to young men who have studied at university or have no kind of [physical] problems and therefore have no source of income."
Official PA TV, Sea Breeze, July 20, 2019
A statement by former PA Minister of Prisoners' Affairs Ashraf Al-Ajrami seems to underscore this tendency. Al-Ajrami stated that Palestinians in Gaza "prefer to be wounded" during confrontations with Israel at the security fence rather than "remain unemployed and without a livelihood" - implying that the wounded become eligible for the lifetime monthly financial rewards the PA pays to imprisoned and wounded terrorists as well as to the families of dead terrorists - the so-called "Martyrs":
"In the Gaza strip a marked decline can be seen in the participation in the weekly marches (refers to the violent March of Return riots in Gaza; see note below -Ed.). This is despite the fact that participation there has been reinforced by free transports, sandwiches, and sometimes by the participants' desire to break free of the misery in which they are living as a result of the siege and tragic situation under which the Gaza Strip residents are buckling, and their preference to be wounded rather than remain unemployed and without a livelihood."
Al-Ayyam, Aug. 7, 2019
Palestinian Media Watch has worked extensively with foreign governments after exposing the PA's policy of rewarding terrorists and murderers with salaries. PMW's efforts ultimately led to the United States passing the Taylor Force Act and Israel's passing what is known as the Anti "Pay-for-Slay" Law.
Israel's Anti "Pay-for-Slay" Law
The terms "the prisoners' institution" and "the institution for the wounded" used by the host on official PA TV apparently refer to the PLO Commission of Prisoners' Affairs and the PLO Families of the Martyrs and Wounded Institution.