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Wednesday, June 14, 2017
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Wednesday, June 14, 2017
PA denies US secretary of state’s claim it had ended payments to terrorists
Palestinian Authority Minister of Prisoner Affairs Issa Qaraqe tells The Times of Israel that “there is no end to the payments” for Palestinian prisoners and families of convicted terrorists.
“We reject ending the subsidies to the prisoners and families of martyrs. We will not apologize for it,” he says.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told senators on Tuesday that PA President Mahmoud Abbas had told him Ramallah intends to stop paying the families of terrorists jailed for attacking or killing Israelis.
“The American and Israeli pressure is an aggression against the Palestinian people and the Palestinian Authority,” Qaraqe says.
— Dov Lieber
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