Fatah and PA official: “We will continue to pay the financial rights of the families of the Martyrs and the prisoners”

Headline: "Al-Sheikh: We have notified Israel that we will continue to pay the financial rights of the families of the Martyrs and the prisoners"

"Fatah Central Committee member and Minister (sic., Head) of Civil Affairs [in the PA] Hussein Al-Sheikh said that the PA has notified the Israeli side in an official letter of its absolute rejection of the decisions to deduct 'the Palestinian people's money' from the tax money (refers to Israeli law to deduct terror salaries from PA tax money; see note below –Ed.), and that we refuse to accept partial money.He added in a tweet on his Twitter account:'We also notified them that we will continue to pay the financial rights of the families of the Martyrs (Shahids) and the prisoners.’"

Israel's Anti "Pay-for-Slay" Law - Israeli law stating that the PA payments to terrorists and the families of dead terrorists is a financial incentive to terror. The law instructs the state to deduct and freeze the amount of money the PA pays in salaries to imprisoned terrorists and families of "Martyrs" from the tax money Israel collects for the PA. Should the PA stop these payments for a full year, the Israeli government would have the option of giving all or part of the frozen money to the PA. The law was enacted by the Israeli Parliament on July 2, 2018. During the parliamentary vote, the law's sponsor Avi Dichter said: “The Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee received much help in its deliberations... from Palestinian Media Watch who provided us with authentic data that enabled productive and professional deliberations, nuances that are very difficult to achieve without precise data.” [Israeli Parliament website, July 2, 2018] In accordance with the law, as of September 2021 Israel’s Security Cabinet had ordered the freeze of 1.857 billion shekels ($580.15 million) - the sum equivalent to the PA payments to terrorists in 2018, 2019, and 2020.