PA pays employees 80% while "prioritizing Martyrs"
Headline: “The allowances of the families of the Martyrs and the wounded will be paid today through the customary mechanisms in the West Bank and Gaza Strip”
“Chairwoman of the [PLO] Families of the Martyrs and Wounded Institution Intisar Al-Wazir said that the allowances of the families of the Martyrs and the wounded will be paid today, Tuesday [June 7, 2022], after 3:00 p.m. in the northern and southern districts (i.e., the West Bank and Gaza Strip respectively) according to the customary mechanisms.
Al-Wazir added that the allowances will be paid at a rate of 80% of the current monthly allowance, but no less than 2,000 [Israeli] shekels (approximately $600 -Ed.), in addition to 5% of the money that was not paid in the past.
She noted that these allowances are being paid in the shadow of the suffocating financial crisis that the [PA] government is in, due to the occupation’s robbery and the theft of the tax revenue money (refers to Israel’s Anti “Pay-for-Slay” Law to deduct PA terror salaries; see note below -Ed.).
She emphasized that the Palestinian leadership led by [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas is giving the allowances of the families of the Martyrs and the wounded priority on everything concerning payment, despite the pressures being exerted so that it will stop paying them.”