Red Cross facilitating Pay-for-Slay

The International Committee of the Red Cross continues to facilitate rewards to imprisoned Palestinian terrorists, thus playing a central role in providing an "economic incentive" for terrorism.

Last week, the PLO Commission of Prisoners' Affairs alerted families of Palestinian terrorist prisoners about the need to obtain Red Cross documentation to prove the terrorists' eligibility for Pay-for-Slay salaries.

What is shocking is that when the terrorists' families approach the Red Cross for the document, the Red Cross knows that the sole purpose of this document is to enable the terrorists to receive their terror rewards. And yet the Red Cross cooperates.

The following is the announcement that the Commission of Prisoners' Affairs posted on its Facebook page:

Posted text: "The period of financial aid for the prisoners (i.e., terrorists) whose names appear below ends in March 2025.

The families of the detainees among them must bring a document from the [Red] Cross or the most recent court session for those who have not been issued a Red Cross document.

As for the administrative detainees, they must bring the administrative extension together with the [Red] Cross document, if it was issued.

This is [to be done] by April 5, 2025 at the latest.

[PLO Commission of Prisoners' Affairs, Facebook page, March 20, 2025]

Over a year ago, Palestinian Media Watch exposed that PLO Prisoners' Affairs Commission Director Qadura Fares said that the Red Cross document is "the document that we established in our [prisoners' law] as a main document [to confirm salary eligibility]" [Official PA TV, January 31, 2024].

Since the Red Cross plays such a central role for the PA and its terrorists, the Red Cross has great leverage. It could certainly condition its assistance to the PA's terrorist prisoners on having the PA/Hamas permit it to visit the Israeli hostages. This should be a fundamental Red Cross demand and condition to the PA as well as a basic demand by Israel to the Red Cross.