Liberman slams Abbas for paying terrorists, not Gazans

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman is lashing out at Abbas and the PA for spending money on terrorists and their relatives while keeping Gaza in dire conditions.

“Abbas is the problem. While he is preventing salaries from being paid to tens of thousands of civil employees in Gaza and blocking any international effort to bring in money that will ease the humanitarian situation in the Strip, he pays every month NIS 100 million to terrorists and murderers,” he writes on Twitter.

He says a law cutting tax transfers to the PA to offset the stipends to terrorists and damaged caused by kites from Gaza “sends a clear and sharp message. No more.”

The bill was pushed through the powerful Knesset Defense and Foreign Affairs committee Wednesday.

Liberman has reportedly been among the ministers most skeptical about plans to rehab Gaza as a means of reducing tensions there.