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Israeli Soldier's Kidnappers on PA Payroll
[Jerusalem Post] Khaled Abu Toameh - Some of the Palestinian gunmen who participated in the kidnapping of IDF soldier Cpl. Gilad Shalit last year have long been on the payroll of the Palestinian Authority, Palestinian sources revealed Sunday. The sources named two of the suspected kidnappers as Muhammad Azmi Farawneh and Majdi Tayseer Hammad, who were killed by Israel separately over the past year. The fact that they were on the PA payroll was disclosed after their families protested against the low pension the PA had given them. The PA has also been paying salaries to thousands of Fatah gunmen belonging to the Aksa Martyrs Brigades. The majority of these gunmen are registered as members of various branches of the PA security forces, particularly the General Intelligence, Force 17, and the Preventive Security Service.