PA’s Abbas ends programme of allowances to families of slain Palestinians

Decree says families of Palestinians jailed oregon killed by Israel whitethorn use for societal payment assistance similar others.

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has announced ending a programme to supply payments to families of Palestinians killed oregon imprisoned by Israel, a longstanding request by the United States and Israel.

President Mahmoud Abbas issued a decree connected Monday “revoking” ineligible articles relating to the allowances initiative.

The bid presented the determination arsenic a restructure, moving the money from the Ministry of Social Development to the Palestinian National Foundation for Economic Empowerment.

It said the families would beryllium eligible for regular payment payments similar different Palestinians “in accordance with the standards of justness and universality”, but it is not wide whether the allowances would halt instantly oregon proceed nether a caller form.

It is not uncommon for countries to supply peculiar payments to radical killed successful convulsive conflict. But the US has agelong decried the Palestinian alleged Martyrs’ Fund, arguing that it rewards attacks against Israel and dubbing it “pay for slay”.

Hamas condemned Abbas’s “unpatriotic” determination connected Monday, calling connected him to reverse it immediately. “We request to admit the sacrifices of the prisoners and wounded and martyrs’ families alternatively of abandoning them,” the radical said successful a statement.

Israel has antecedently withheld and deducted Palestinian taxation revenues implicit the payments.

Abbas’s decree comes amid a propulsion by the PA to contiguous itself arsenic an internationally credible enactment to instrumentality over Gaza.

A kid stands amid debris successful beforehand of a Palestinian Authority constabulary conveyance successful the Israeli-occupied West Bank metropolis of Jenin, successful January 2025 [Jaafar Ashtiyeh/ AFP]

PA information forces person besides been cracking down connected fighters committed to equipped conflict against Israel successful the occupied West Bank.

In December, the PA launched a weeks-long information run successful the Jenin refugee campy that it said aimed to reconstruct instrumentality and order, starring to accusations of laying siege to the area.

The PA’s run was followed by Israel’s “Iron Wall” cognition successful Jenin, portion of its broader violative crossed the West Bank, which intensified aft the Gaza ceasefire woody came into effect past month.

The Israeli incursion has killed dozens – including women and children – and dealt a dense stroke to the section economy, costing astatine slightest $8.4m successful harm per day, according to the Jenin Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

On Monday, Palestinians accused the Israeli subject of destroying the Nur Shams exile camp successful the northbound of the territory. Ahmed al-Izza, an aged resident, said soldiers stormed people’s homes and forced them to leave.

“Destruction is everyplace successful the camp,” helium said. “Residents who remained are waiting for their turn. The campy is surrounded and Israeli forces are raiding each houses.”

The US provides Israel – which has been accused by starring rights groups of imposing apartheid against Palestinians – with billions of dollars successful subject assistance annually.

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