Abbas repeats vow to prioritize terrorist salaries despite financial crisis: “If we are left with one penny, we will give it to their families”
Official PA TV, filler from a speech by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: “We will not agree to accept the [tax] money with a deduction of one penny, and especially a deduction from the Martyrs, because the Martyrs are the most sanctified among us, and because the wounded are the most sanctified among us, and because the prisoners are the most sanctified among us. Therefore, it cannot be that we would abandon them, it cannot be that we would abandon their families, and if we are left with one penny, we will give it to their families.”