The mother of US teenager Ezra Schwartz who was killed by a Palestinian terrorist in 2015 urges the UN Security Council to pressure the Palestinian Authority into halting its policy of paying salaries to jailed terrorists and the families of prisoners killed while committing attacks against Israelis.
“Ezra’s death broke our family and our world will never be the same,” Schwartz tells the UN body. “The payments by the PA are just another way to glorify and encourage terrorism. It’s offensive and wrong.”
“I am here to make a simple request. Please do not kill. Please do not reward people who kill, because that is as if you are doing the killing yourselves,” she says.
Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon and Ruth Schwartz, the mother of slain American student Ezra Schwartz, attend a forum at the United Nations in New York on May 24, 2017. (Israel’s mission to the UN, courtesy)
Israel’s UN ambassador Danny Danon tells the forum the Palestinian man who murdered Ezra and two others is currently receiving a monthly stipend of $3,000 for committing murder.
Danon says the international aid contributed to the PA is being “exploited by the Palestinians and used to support terrorism.”
He calls on the UN to withhold aid from the PA until the policy is discontinued.
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