Researcher on Palestinian Authority television: "We all know" Palestinians risked their own kids' lives to collect Pay-for-Slay
Palestinian Media Watch has been warning for years that the PA's rewarding of terrorist prisoners and the families of injured and so-called Martyrs with high monthly salaries incentivizes terror. But even PMW could not imagine that Palestinian parents would intentionally bring their children to areas of conflict so that they would be injured, and expose them to possibly a worse fate, only to get that monthly PA salary.
Now, on PA TV, comes a shocking admission: Palestinian parents would intentionally bring their kids to the front lines of violence so that they would be injured and thus the family would get their monthly payments:
"Families, some would go together with their children, etc., so they would be injured or something would happen to them, so they could later receive the monthly aid or the monthly salary."
The senior Syrian journalist and researcher who exposed this went so far as to explain that this practice of sacrificing children to the point of injury and endangering their lives was due to hardship:
"… as a result of the existing neediness. Of course, not all Palestinians have economic independence, and they do not have full employment opportunities."
As horrific as it is that Palestinians did this to their children, it is equally unimaginable that a researcher at a British think tank, the Progress Center for Policies in London, andformer deputy chairman of the Syrian Journalist Union would try to explain or justify parents endangering their children for financial profit.
The following is his full statement:
Mustafa Al-Miqdad: Years ago, at the Gaza border, there was friction with the Zionist enemy. There were those who would go out to marches and protests there. There are stories I won't hide from you, that we all know, meaning as families, some would go together with their children, etc., so they would be injured or something would happen to them, so they could later receive the monthly aid or the monthly salary, or even be arrested and imprisoned to receive just what would support their families as a result of this situation, as a result of the existing neediness. Of course, not all Palestinians have economic independence, and they do not have full employment opportunities."
[Mustafa Al-Miqdad, Researcher at Progress Center for Policies in London, Former Deputy Chairman of Syrian Journalist Union, Official PA TV, Feb. 1, 2026]