PA pays salaries to 5,000 families of “Martyrs” just in Lebanon
Official PA TV host: "His Honor [PA] President [Abbas] referred in his speech [at the Eighth Fatah Conference] to the issue of the tax money being held by the occupation, and to the financial crisis caused to the Palestinian people, which includes the inability of the PA to pay salaries to the families of the Martyrs and the prisoners (i.e., terrorists), is there hope for solving this problem?" …
National Association of the Families of the Martyrs of Palestine Secretary-General in Lebanon and Eighth Fatah Conference member Issam Halabi: "We, as the National Association of the Families of the Martyrs [of Palestine], cooperate with movement institutions to find [solutions] – but we only provide partial solutions, and they are not enough. It is impossible [with] about 5,000, or a little more than 5,000 Palestinian families, families of Martyrs just in Lebanon."
[Falestinona, Fatah's Information and Culture Commission in Lebanon, YouTube channel, May 17, 2026]