Palestinian Authority’s ‘Pay-For-Slay’ Program Continues
- Oct 30, 2025 -
The Palestinian Authority continues its “Pay-for-Slay” program under a different name and with a different system of payment. Terrorists and the families of dead terrorists still receive generous monthly subsidies based on how deadly were their acts of terrorism, not on their financial need, as would happen if this were merely a welfare program. Christine Douglass-Williams wrote about this here, and more can be found here: “Israeli FM Gideon Sa’ar: Palestinian Authority ‘never stopped’ terror,” Jerusalem Post, October 27, 2025:
“Contrary to the Palestinian Authority’s promises in English, it continues the policy of paying salaries to terrorists,” Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said on Monday after meeting Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó in Budapest.
“The PA rewards Palestinian terrorists, including Hamas members with Jewish blood on their hands, both those in prison and those released, for example, in the recent deal. The PA never stopped paying the salaries to terrorists. It only changed the method. On Monday, the terrorists receive the money from Palestinian post office branches,” he said.
Sa’ar added, “Instead of demanding accountability from the PA, the European Union whitewashes it. They ignore the ongoing crime of paying terrorists and, in practice, encourage terror. They seek to reward the PA with a state of its own. President Trump’s 20-point plan stated clearly that there will be no legitimacy for the PA without real reforms.
It said the PA must take all necessary steps for the immediate cessation of paying salaries to terrorists imprisoned in Israel and to the families of terrorists who were killed. To this day, the PA has failed to meet those criteria. I call on responsible and moral European leaders to follow Hungary’s example. Hold the PA to account. Stop paying salaries to terrorists now.”
The Jerusalem Post has already reported that a watchdog alleges the PA quietly continued such payments. On Sunday, Palestinian Media Watch said stipends to security prisoners and to families of “martyrs” were paid through PA post offices on Saturday morning, without an official announcement, and recipients reported receiving 50% of the monthly amount, in line with partial salaries paid to PA civil servants amid a fiscal crunch... |
