PA PM: PA will pay full salaries of terrorists and their families by order of Abbas; PA employees get 60%
Headline: "The [PA] government emphasizes adherence to the refusal to accept the reduced tax money and blesses the public employees’ resolve"
"[PA] Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh declared during a [PA] government meeting held yesterday [May 27, 2019] in Ramallah that the government – despite the financial crisis and by order of [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas – will pay the full salaries (rawatib) of the families of the Martyrs and the prisoners, 60% of the public employees' salaries for May – according to the same criteria in [both] the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and the full salary of those who make 2,000 [Israeli] shekels or less in the West Bank and also in the Gaza Strip.
The prime minister emphasized 'the position of the [PA] leadership that refuses to accept our money from Israel if it is reduced, and the rejection of the description of our sons who are in the Israeli prisons as terrorists, or of us as funding terror (referring to the Israeli Anti "Pay-for-Slay" Law to deduct terrorist salaries; see note below –Ed.)."