Breaking: Palestinian Authority pays 8,000 terrorist "pensioners" Pay for Slay salaries

The mask is off: The Palestinian Authority announced that 8,000 terrorist prisoner pensioners would receive their monthly Pay-for-Slay "pension" salary today – and confirmations of receipt of the deposits are already being observed over social media.

The minimum amount for such salaries is 4,000 shekels for terrorists who spent five years in prison. Going by that minimum, today the PA paid these terrorists - which constitute only one third of all Pay-for-Slay recipients - at least 32 million shekels - over US$10 million.

However, in actuality, this most conservative estimate is far lower than the amount that was surely paid out, as some of the more infamous terrorist released in recent hostage deals have spent 30 or more years in prison. Terrorists with such status receive at least 12,000 shekels each month.

One year after PA President Mahmoud Abbas promised the US, Canada, UK, Australia and the EU that he was ending Pay-for-Slay, there is no escaping the fact that this was just another deception and a lie. The PA remains an unreformed sponsor of terror.