PA: anti-'Pay-For-Slay' law is criminal
Headline: "The [PA] Ministry of Foreign Affairs: The financial strangling of the leadership will not succeed in leading to the implementation of the deal of the century"
"The [PA] Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned the occupation authorities' decision to steal the [Palestinian] people's money (referring to Israeli law to deduct terror salaries from PA tax money; see note below –Ed.), and said that it is a crime according to the principles of international law and the Geneva Convention…
The ministry has monitored this crime at all levels, and it will act to expose it in coordination with the brothers and friends in the world. The ministry will necessarily turn to the international courts, and primarily the International Criminal Court… in order to demand an accounting from the Israeli war criminals and to put them on trial."
Israel's Anti "Pay-for-Slay" Law - Israeli law stating that the PA payments to terrorists and the families of dead terrorists is a financial incentive to terror. The law instructs the state to deduct and freeze the amount of money the PA pays in salaries to imprisoned terrorists and families of "Martyrs" from the tax money Israel collects for the PA. Should the PA stop these payments for a full year, the Israeli government would have the option of giving all or part of the frozen money to the PA. The law was enacted by the Israeli Parliament on July 2, 2018. During the parliamentary vote, the law's sponsor Avi Dichter said: “The Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee received much help in its deliberations... from Palestinian Media Watch who provided us with authentic data that enabled productive and professional deliberations, nuances that are very difficult to achieve without precise data.” [Israeli Parliament website, July 2, 2018] In accordance with the law, as of September 2021 Israel’s Security Cabinet had ordered the freeze of 1.857 billion shekels ($580.15 million) - the sum equivalent to the PA payments to terrorists in 2018, 2019, and 2020.