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PA Hiding Terrorist Salaries in Financial Reports to Donor Countries


(Palestinian Media Watch) Maurice Hirsch, Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik - The Palestinian Authority's monthly financial documents for 2020 show that the PA is trying to hide its monthly salary payments to terrorist prisoners. Its monthly budget performance reports for 2018 and 2019 openly listed the payments as expenditures of the PA Ministry of Prisoners' Affairs. However, since the beginning of 2020, there is no listing at all for the ministry. The PA is still paying monthly salaries to terrorist prisoners, but is trying to hide them by listing them under a different category. In 2020 there has been a huge rise in the amount the PA transfers to "PLO institutions" - an amount equivalent to what the PA used to allocate to the Ministry of Prisoners' Affairs. As a recipient of international funding, the PA is obligated by donor countries to show full transparency and publicly list all its expenses, whereas the PLO is not accountable to anyone for how it spends its money.
2020-05-07 00:00:00
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