PLO: Seized bank accounts 'blatant robbery'
Headline: “A new theft: The occupation has seized the money of eight prisoners from the 1948 territories”
“Israeli Army Minister (sic., Minister of Defense) Naftali Bennett yesterday, Wednesday [Dec. 25, 2019], signed an order seizing the money of the families of eight prisoners from the 1948 territories (i.e., Israel), claiming that they are monthly salaries (rawatib) they received from the PA.
Bennett took pride in his decision to steal the prisoners’ money,and claimed that ‘This is the first step that Israel is carrying out directly’ against the prisoners who receive monthly salaries from the PA, claiming that the salaries ‘encourage’ carrying out operations(i.e., terror attacks). He also threatened to seize the money of additional prisoners in the future.
The prisoners who were included in the money seizure order: Muwaffaq Naif Hassan Uruq (i.e., terrorist, led two suicide bombers who murdered 23), Ibrahim Muhammad Ibrahim Al-Bakri, Yassin Hassan Saleh Al-Bakri (i.e., terrorist brothers, aided suicide bomber who murdered 9), Hikmat Fahim Mustafa Na’amneh (i.e., involved in funding illegal organizations assaulting and intimidating Jews on the Temple Mount), Muhammad Sa’id Tawfiq Jabarin (i.e., terrorist involved in the Night of the Pitchforks, 3 murdered), Walid Daqqa (i.e., terrorist, involved in murder of 1), Samir Saleh Taha Sarsawi (i.e., terrorist, threw a hand grenade), and Mujahid Muhammad Yusuf Dhouqan (i.e., attempted to bomb an Israeli rail line near Netanya in cooperation with Fatah terrorists).
In response to the decision, Director of [PLO] Commission of Prisoners and Released Prisoners' Affairs Qadri Abu Bakr said that the decision is blatant robbery and open theft of the rights of the prisoners’ families.
He added that the salaries that the commission is paying the prisoners, independent of their place of residence, are allowances that provide their families with a living, a place to live, health, education, and so on, and we will not relinquish this obligation regardless of the extremist Israeli ways of thwarting them [the allowances], seizing them, or stealing them like highway robbers.”
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