Fatah vows to continue paying terrorists' salaries – "under no circumstances can the salaries be harmed"
Headline: “The Fatah Central Committee emphasizes the importance of deepening the national dialogue between all the PLO factions to strengthen its unity”
“[PA] President Mahmoud Abbas led a Fatah Movement Central Committee meeting yesterday, Tuesday [Aug. 24, 2021], at the [PA] presidential headquarters in Ramallah…
The central committee again expressed its condemnation and rejection of the Israeli government’s deduction of the Martyrs and prisoners’ salaries from the Palestinian tax money, which is something that the Palestinian people will not accept (refers to Israel’s Anti “Pay-for-Slay” Law to deduct PA terror salaries; see note below -Ed.). It emphasized that under no circumstances can the salaries of the families of the Martyrs and the prisoners be harmed, and that this Israeli decision contradicts all the signed agreements, which determine that the Palestinian tax money is the Palestinian people’s right and not charity from anyone.
The central committee reviewed the [PA] government’s great financial distress, which stems to a large extent from the financial blockade to which the PA is being subjected. It called on the Arab brothers and the friends [of the PA] to hurry to grant aid in order to get out of this crisis.”