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Source: https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/still-not-a-partner-for-peace/
Palestinian Authority Continues to Pay Salaries to Terrorists
(Israel Hayom) Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser - In his annual speech to the UN General Assembly, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas rejected the U.S. peace plan as well as the possibility of Washington serving as a mediator in talks between Israel and the Palestinians, attacked recent moves by Israel and the U.S., and promised his people would continue its fight with all means at its disposal. Abbas stated his enthusiastic commitment to continue to pay salaries to Palestinian terrorists and their families. According to the PA budget implementation report for 2019, the PA transferred $79 million in salaries and another $22 million in "social" payments to families, family expenses, medical insurance coverage, and legal expenses. In total, the PA Prisoner Affairs Ministry spent $105 million on these terrorist payments, a figure similar in scope to those made the previous year. The writer, former head of the IDF Military Intelligence Research Division, is director of the Project on Regional Middle East Developments at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.