Israeli envoy urges UN to work to end payments to Palestinian terrorists

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon calls for the Security Council to address the issue of Palestinian Authority payments to convicted terrorists.

“The Security Council must act immediately to put an end to the funding of terrorists by the Palestinian Authority. Aid provided by the donor countries to the PA every year ends up funding terrorists who murdered innocent Israelis,” Danon says at a press conference outside a meeting of the Security Council.

Yesterday, Ambassador Danon sent an official letter to the Security Council presenting data showing PA payments to Palestinian terrorist.

“According to Palestinian Authority laws and regulations, every terrorist arrested, tried and imprisoned receives monthly financial payments. The more Israelis killed, the longer the terrorist is sentenced to prison, the higher payment the terrorist receives from the PA,” he wrote.

“A Palestinian terrorist who murders innocent civilians and is sentenced to over thirty years in prison receives over 3,000 US dollars a month. Put simply, this is official Palestinian blood-money, rewarding terrorists who murder Jews. The State and people of Israel want nothing more than to live in peace and security with all of our neighbors. If the Palestinians seek the same goal, then their first step must be to stop the glorification of terrorists,” Danon concluded.